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I work with food, on food, and around food. The Japanese Zen concept of food as both sustenance and transitory perishable art, pleasing to the senses and meant to be ingested and transformed as life-sustaining energy, is an inspiration for my art media.
Past projects include portraits depicting Kamikaze pilots made from sushi rice and seaweed, two elements of Japanese cuisine of immense cultural importance, evoking notions of honor, history and tradition.
Made from food, my works are temporal, like life's experience. They rot, edible yet timeless, a compelling statement to primary instincts.

Ryo