52”x 65” x 15”

2024

In my artwork "AMERIKAN DORIMU," I aim to portray the excessive consumption associated with the American Dream from the perspective of an immigrant. The familiar everyday products symbolize postwar Japan in the 1970s, when Western culture began to heavily influence our traditional culture. These products were seen as symbols of prosperity, joy, and hope, but also marked the shift towards materialism and consumerism. Each package is depicted on painted and silk-screened canvases, machine-stitched into fiber-filled packages, and displayed in a large pile within an abandoned shopping cart and hung floating on the wall as an installation piece.