Creating is my way of investigating, understanding, reorganizing, transforming, communicating, and connecting with both the internal and external territories I inhabit.
My practice has never begun with concepts or predetermined frameworks. It begins with intuition, presence, and direct experience. Every project I have developed over the past decade has emerged from this same impulse: a way of making sense of the territories I inhabit and the encounters that continuously reshape them.
For many years, I found it difficult to explain these connections through words. Looking back now, I realize they were always there. I simply didn’t yet have the language to describe them. It was only through years of making, reflecting, writing, and sharing my work publicly that I began to recognize the artistic methodology quietly connecting everything I create.
The word that first helped me bring these ideas together was territory.
Today, I understand that my work is equally shaped by encounter.
I don’t think of territory only as geography. I think of the body as a territory. Memory as a territory. Clothing as a territory. The city as a territory. Every encounter creates a temporary territory, and every artistic experience has the potential to transform it.
Rather than existing as separate projects, DOC-DRAWING, FORGING ARMORS, I Don’t Know How to Draw, Dance, and Shakuhachi function as interconnected methodologies within a single artistic investigation. Each creates different conditions for presence, listening, experimentation, and transformation while asking the same underlying question:
How can shared artistic experiences reconnect people with their own creative capacity?
Photo by: Lucas Raion
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