My work is structured around practices grounded in observation.
The Core Series, Withered Plant, is a long-term archival practice centered on the observation and recording of withered plants using scanning electron microscopy. Initiated in 2014, this series continues as my central and lifelong practice, in which observation itself is treated as a trace to be preserved and shared for the future.
The Extended Series expands these observational approaches across different subjects and scales—including genomes, brainwaves, atoms, and voice—presenting the outcomes of observation as artworks in diverse forms and media.

Life will one day come to an end.
Yet that end is not a termination, but the beginning of a new cycle.

This work takes a fragment of a withered plant, only a few millimeters in size, and subjects it to scanning electron microscopy.
The fragment is subdivided, photographed in detail, and then reassembled into a reconstructed image.
Through the lens of the microscope emerge microstructures invisible to the naked eye—traces of life lingering within death, and signs pointing toward regeneration.

That vision also resonates with my own finite existence.
In the process of observation, the memory of the plant’s life and the memory of my own life quietly intersect.
Even when life is lost, it does not merely return to the cycle of matter; its traces remain, open to reinterpretation and reconfiguration in the future.
Observation itself becomes a trace, preserved with DOI registration—enduring both as a scientific record and as an artistic memory for the future.

Withered Plant is my lifelong work: a quiet contemplation on the resonance between life and time,
and on the cycles of existence that continue beyond finitude.

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[ ARCHIVE TRACE ]
Series DOI：10.5281/zenodo.16946075
Hosted on：Zenodo

Primary SEM observation data are archived for each work with a DOI (an international persistent identifier) in a research data repository operated by CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research).
This ensures long-term accessibility and sharing, allowing the data to be carried forward into the future.
(As of Phase I, 100 SEM observation datasets have been archived with DOIs.)