I love the realism of photography, but I still love the handmade  interpretations of drawing. The technology behind photography has  changed much over the years, but drawing has been a constant, for myself  and perhaps humanity, too. To me taking photographs is quick visual  sketches of what I see and what I experience physically in my daily  life. On the other hand, slow rather simple drawing with pencil, a piece  of paper and my hand is an act of searching for the inner world of  myself. By combining these two elements in an abstract manner, I try to  create my visual, emotional landscape that I capture in this city I  live.

I am participating in Masayo Nabeshima’s project “Sharing Same Time ” . I  take photos in New York and others take photos in Fujisawa in Japan.  Nabeshima put together the pictures on his blog . The activity of  putting 2 photos together with their only common feature “being at same  time” occasionally show some surprising and unexpected results.This has  been continuing almost 19years now.