Jungle Geometry // No. 08

These shape-shifting mokuhanga prints were made while I was living in Tokyo, a sprawling metropolis that is densely layered, infinitely complex and, for a newcomer, deeply disorienting. I struggled to navigate its web of streets and alleys by scanning its foreign landscape, searching for familiar patterns and forms to help me understand where I was. Sometimes I’d suddenly realize I wasn't where I thought, and for a brief, disorienting moment — I was nowhere. These works explore this hardwired need to search for patterns in our surroundings, and the profound exhilaration of being lost.

Exhibition opening Genten on 06/15/24 at Paste Gallery in Tokyo.

See more about the process of making these works.