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The initial lockdown of the pandemic, and the time spent in this space, really motivated me to think about this viewpoint from the apartment. At first, I thought wow, I should make a landscape painting since that's what I'm looking out at. But then I realized that making a painting of what I'm seeing out of my window just did not really work for the way I think about things.

So I decided to frame the view of the window with two giant black ribbons that kind of acted like a curtain or a quotation mark. I called this installation Mountain Altar.

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Ribbons have been one of the motifs in my work from very early on, as a recognizable ornamental decoration. The meaning can be fluid depending on its context, often evoking associations of a present or a gift. I am also interested in how commonly recognizable symbols and signs can shift meaning depending on context or scale. In the case of the ribbons that appear in Mountain AltarI initially made a pair of ribbons on a small life-size scale—one from an observational cartoony drawing of a ribbon-tied lace, and the other a cut-out stencil made with hole punchers imitating an illusion of a lace ribbon.

I enlarged these ribbon forms to construct the shaped paper paintings of the Mountain Altar installation.

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When I made the ribbon installation in my apartment, I wanted to quote the view itself because landscape paintings—or any paintings—could be traditionally thought to be like a window. So I made this installation, and I thought my dialogue with this view itself was going to be done at that point. But at this moment, I'm painting this reconstructed view—this window installation—as part of a body of work that has a connection to ukiyo-e.

I'm particularly interested in ukiyo-e because of the history of ukiyo-e prints traveling to the West and then the artists from the West such as Impressionists being influenced by it. I'm a Japanese born person, but I grew up in Brazil. And while I was looking at the calendars of ukiyo-e that my parents had around while in South America, I was always thinking about that exchange.

So it's a continuation of a dialogue. I love the idea of the floating world itself, and that phrase…the poetics of the everyday that is evoked through it.

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The ribbons in the Mountain Altar installation were almost like a patchwork of remaining scrap papers from earlier works that were glued together, collaged together to become this larger symbol. I'm readdressing what I made then, and translating that whole action of making this altar installation into smaller, window-sized paintings. There are a lot of things that I think I will figure out over the next several months before this full body of work will be completed.

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