- reality, record, reset, reaction, response, realize, and resistance -
"I went to see carps, when aftershocks of the 3.11 quake still continued, in Ojiya the district where the 2004 Niigata Chuetsu earthquake had attacked.
Splashing vigor of the carps, relations among them, their history and their future I looked at and considered, and my thoughts overlapped with my prayer to those people who must continue to live."

- the artist