AYUMI has been an artist since moving to Hong Kong in 1996.  Having stayed in this dynamic urban city for 18 years, she soon found that we are in a time of apathy when most of us have lost our interest in or concern for things in the Nature.  She is thus inspired to review her relationship between the human world and natural environment.

Nature, where trees, forests, birds and animals have not been substantially altered by human intervention always amazed AYUMI that she has never seen such a beauty in the world of our mankind.  Mirror, the new medium AYUMI firstly exploited is found as a key to the physical world.  The mirror reflects reality, but it is also the perfect tool for art creation.  She then reviewed all her paintings carefully and spent a lot of time in developing a new artworks mixed with her previous paintings to form a new theme “As is”.  

This is not a collection of still life but a reconnection of the Nature by applying a new medium and drawing techniques.  The paintings of the exhibition “As is” are, in fact in flow which those presented on mirror and/or with mirror just as if the Nature being changed along with us (people who are seeing and touching them, and even the environment in which they are being placed).

AYUMI does not expect us, the urban people to set apart from the world, the world of science and technology. Instead, she encourages us to return and feel the beauty of Nature once again in her new exhibition.

The exhibition “As is” features what AYUMI has perceived the present state of the physical world as it is:

• Existence of nature including “ Winds, Lights, Water, Moon, Star, Ocean Forest...” that everything in universe touches my soul; 

• Natural phenomenon and its environment;

• Relationship between nature and human;

• Styles and methods in art