I made geta, a traditional Japanese footwear, using discarded cardboard.

I created a basket using kombu, a type of seaweed. Kombu is a soul food for Japanese people and is widely used as a base for dashi (broth) in various dishes. However, it is often discarded after the broth has been extracted. Wanting to find a new purpose for this material, I decided to repurpose kombu into a basket.

I created an edible plastic package at home, using gelatin and honey.

I created a book cover using homemade bioplastics, dyed with discarded onion skins.

Blue light is once said to disrupt human sleep quality*, yet plants utilize blue light for photosynthesis. If plants could protect humans from harmful blue light, could this lead to a new symbiotic relationship between humans and plants? With this idea in mind, I created an eyeglass-shaped art piece incorporating chlorophyl extracted from spinach. *There are various discussions regarding the effects of blue light on humans, and it is not necessarily always harmful.

I created a marble run toy inspired by karesansui (Japanese traditional dry gardens) using tufting and embroidery.

I recorded the sounds of disposable plastic and bioplastic and visualized each using TouchDesigner. In the visualization, while patterns expanded across a black screen in response to the sounds. The bioplastic produced quieter sounds, resuting in slower and smaller pattern expansion compared to disposable plastic.

I 3D-scanned my own feet to create a personalized footprint stamp. Each time I took an environmentally friendly action, I stamped it as a way to visualize and track my efforts in reducing my carbon footprint.

Microorganisms form biofilms - biological membranes - that enable them to act collectively for their survival. Recent research suggests that microorganisms may alter the shape of their biofilms in response to environmental conditions. It is possible that they are constructing their own “cities” to create an optimal living environment using their own bodies. Inspired by this idea, I created an initial 3D model resembling a biofilm and imagined myself s part of it. This is a part of an ongoing project.


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