For the past twenty years, I have traveled to Japan again and again. What began as a place of fascination, discovery, and return has become deeply woven into my life and my creative practice. Now, in a full-circle moment, I have the opportunity to live in Japan for ten months—to move from visiting a place to truly inhabiting it.

This time is an opportunity to slow down and create space for discovery. To step outside the pace and expectations of everyday life and give myself the time to actually experience the thing I am in: to notice, to wander, to observe, to follow curiosity, and to let ideas emerge without needing to immediately know where they are going.

I want to create things that are personal and rooted in the experience of being here. I am interested in standing with one foot in the past and one foot in the future—carrying twenty years of memories, relationships, images, and accumulated experiences into a new and unknown chapter. I want to explore what happens in the space between those two places: what is remembered, what is changing, and what might be possible.

Rather than arriving with a fixed outcome, I want to use these ten months to discover. To make things that could only come from this particular time and place. To allow the work to be shaped by daily life, by attention, by the unfamiliar and the familiar becoming intertwined.

At its heart, this is about presence. It is a moment carved out to go slowly, to listen, and to be fully where I am. After twenty years of traveling to Japan, I finally have the chance to stay—to see what becomes possible when I stop passing through and begin to live here.