Growing up in Japan, reading books and listening to records opened spaces in my imagination that felt vivid and real. I have long wanted to give those experiences a physical presence: something that could stand on its own, occupy space, and be encountered from different sides.
In book throwing, I place a used book on a potter’s wheel and attempt to shape it into a freestanding sculpture. Working with the pages and binding, I follow the possibilities and resistance of the material. The book takes on another life, its words remaining within a form that can be approached beyond the act of reading.
This desire runs through my work with text, typography, records, and sound. Reading and listening set things in motion internally; making offers a way to bring those movements into shared space. Here, the scale is intimate, within reach of my hands, while suggesting possibilities for larger forms.
The video holds the action together with the light and surrounding sounds of the place where it happened. It records the time spent trying to make an imagined possibility stand.
