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In particular, I am interested in Japanese indigo dyeing (aizome), whose deep blue tones emerge through repeated immersion in natural indigo. Although this material research initially seemed separate from my work on speculative space habitats, I have come to see that both are connected by the same fascination with living environments, transformation, and the relationship between nature and technology.

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This series reflects on life in space and is strongly influenced by the story of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and its heroine, Princess Kaguya. Kaguya gazes toward the Earth, longing to return, yet is destined to remain on the Moon. Inspired by this perspective, I imagine fictional lunar stations seen through a naïve gaze.

In this sense, my approach echoes that of Henri Rousseau, who painted imagined tropical landscapes without ever traveling to Africa.

Here, blue becomes more than a color. It evokes the omnipresent blue that surrounds our planet when viewed from space.

If an extraterrestrial civilization were observing us from afar, our world would most likely appear as a blue sphere suspended in the darkness. Blue therefore becomes both the color of distance and longing, linking Earth, memory, and the imagined landscapes of another world.

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