Milky Way is my painting series that I started in 2015. I classify various objects from my surroundings into categories based on shapes from human body parts such as limb, joint, bone, face, tube and hole. It is presented as a classification chart style in which all the objects classified under the same shape appear homogenously as if they are interchangeable with our body parts. The idea came from the great east Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011 which became a starting point for me to reflect on our relationship with our environment. It ultimately led me to be interested in human bodies as a place where nature and culture meet. I imagine a topological shape when perceiving our bodies. The inside and outside of a body are connected without boundaries and all the elements, that construct our environment, circulate in and out regardless our will. Thus, each one of our bodies inevitably contains conflicts, contradictions and sometimes harmonies between nature and culture. This series is an experiment of embodying this metaphysical concept by looking at our bodies as a part of nature and our environment as an extension of our body.

Hashi (Edges) 2016 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Ana (Faces) 2016 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Ana (Holes) 2016 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Hasami (Picks and Sandwiches) 2016 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Sankaku (Triangles) 2016 30x30 inch oil on canvas
Tsui (Pairs) 2016 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Tama (Balls) 2016 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Juji (Crosses) 2016 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Hone (Bones) 2016 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Himo (Strings) 2016 36x30 inch oil on canvas
Eda (Branches) 2016 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Himo II (Strings) 2015 30x24 inch oil on canvas	Tama (Balls) 2015 30x24 inch oil on canvas	En (Circles) 2015 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Kuda (Tubes) 2015 36x30 inch oil on canvas
Kansetsu (Joints) 2015 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Yotsuashi (Four legs) 2015 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Utsuwa (Bowls) 2015 36x30 inch oil on canvas	Bo (Sticks) 2015 36x30 inch oil on canvas