Depiction：
The sense of interval—between people, between times, between places—has always been an essential element in my work. The character 間 is usually read as ma or aida, meaning “interval” or “in-between space,” but here I choose to read it as ai. It can freely shift in form and feeling, quietly accompanying us, and within such spaces one may even glimpse the divine.
In ai, the natural grain of the wood is imagined as the surface of a pond, at whose edge the girls are depicted. The water's surface itself becomes the ma—a space of in-betweenness—across which they seem to reach out, gently drawing one another's thoughts.
