<Emiko in her studio>
About Emiko
“I have spent all my life in urban settings: the first half in Tokyo and the second half in London. I have a deep curiosity about urban dwellers, myself among them. As for me, what is the relationship between my past and my present? Where do I belong? Where am I going? These endless questions evoke in me a sense of the fragility and loneliness of humankind. It seems like all lives and their experiences cross between reality and illusion. My work asks questions without sound and I listen for the answers to try to find out where I am. After graduating from The Royal College of Art, London, I have continued to develop my inner strength, and strongly believe that Art is the rock of my mental stability.
I am interested in Nature. Flowers represent beauty and the mathematical in Nature, through numbers of petals, arrangement of seeds with Fibonacci sequence and so on. It is a mysterious connection to a universe rule. As an Eastern myself, the Lotus flower is especially meaningful. It symbolizes spirituality, sprouting and eventually blooming with sacred beauty. Yet also the Lotus flower needs mud to grow. In many ways we as humans can learn from flowers.”