Furniture Imbued with Prison Memories and Family Recollections.

The artist creates works like “sets without actors” where everyone becomes a protagonist. For this project, she researched old photos from Nara Prison, creating an installation that overlays her own memories to evoke anonymous and universal nostalgia.

From the traces of memory and records embedded in the details of the places I encounter, I explore the connection between the layered lives of the people tied to that land and my own daily life. No matter the place or circumstance, time flows, and there is no moment that does not pass. At Nara Prison, the time of those who once spent a part of their lives here—meeting and parting, then stepping onto new paths—was burned into the photographs. Using these as clues, I created this work with the hope that the memories and times of people living in different eras might quietly intersect here and now.