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001 2019.03

Garden of Forgotten Letters

忘れられた手紙の庭

An interactive correspondence project between two anonymous writers, paused after seventeen letters when one stopped replying. The remaining letters wait, perfectly preserved, on a folder no one has opened in years.

manuscript · archived

002 2018.11

Quiet Rooms, Volume I

静かな部屋・第一巻

A photographic survey of empty interior spaces shot during the early hours of weekday mornings. Collected in a hand-bound book that was never sent to print. The dummy still rests on a shelf in Setagaya.

photo book · archived

003 2017.07

Tea Ceremony for One

独服

A short film documenting daily solitary tea preparation across thirty consecutive mornings. The footage was edited but never scored. The silent cut sits on an external drive labelled simply "later."

film · archived

004 2016.04

A Pattern Book of Rain

雨の柄帖

Ninety-two textile patterns derived from rainfall recordings made in four prefectures. The fabrics were sampled but never produced at scale. The folder of swatches remains in a drawer in Kyoto.

textile · archived

005 2015.09

Notes Toward a Slower Calendar

遅い暦のための覚書

A redesign of the seventy-two micro seasons of the Japanese almanac for contemporary urban life. The drafts filled three notebooks before quietly dispersing into other projects.

essay · archived

006 2014.02

The Listening Bench

聴くベンチ

A proposal for a public bench equipped with a slow microphone that records ambient sound at one frame per minute. Submitted to a city call. The reply, if it ever came, was never opened.

design proposal · archived

007 2012.10

Catalogue of Small Drafts

小さな下書きの目録

Forty-eight unsent emails, each a fragment of a longer thought, gathered into a single document and never finished. The file remains on a flash drive that is no longer connected to anything.

writing · archived

Everything that has been set aside is still kept — quietly, gently, without expectation.

蔵に納められたもの、静かに、やさしく、待たずに。