In the beginning of making new works there has been and still is a way of thinking that brings about how I approach my experiments in the studio. And I say experiments because everything I do comes from using my studio as a laboratory where I explore how I want to speak about disruption, destruction and what being on the edge of chaos might mean. I explore with my various materials what it means to face random tragedies that come and go in our lives and gives life a feeling of absurdity. We, as humans together and collectively experience these random chaotic events sometimes privately and sometimes publicly.  

In order to speak as I want about these random absurd events my choice of materials can be cardboard, fabric, chicken wire, newspaper, duck tape, paper machete and wood common everyday materials. My explorations lead me to twisting, tying, binding, burning, stripping, tearing, hanging, knotting, dying, gluing, cutting, and piling always searching and finding a way to show humor and tragedy existing side by side. The color red is strength and courage and through the many twisting and knotting and tearing is resilience and mending. The act of layering and piling is a way of speaking about our shared human personal and public collective histories our memories, our stories. And for me it is always about resilience, resolution and mending.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Shows

2023 Anthropocene, Core Gallery, Seattle, WA

2022 Shelf Life, Core Gallery, Seattle, WA

2013 Performance with Sculpture, Koji Ogushi, Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Art, Hilo, Hawaii

2013 Spaceship, East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawii

2012 I am working on it, Wailoa Art Center, Hilo, Hawaii

2011 Somewhere Anywhere, East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii

2011 Stage Design, Performance, Shizuno Nasu and Rhiannon, Shizuno Studio, Volcano, Hawaii

2006 Something, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2006 Key into Art, open studio tour, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Group Shows

2023 Annual Group Exhibition, Core Gallery, Seattle, WA

2022 Annual Group Exhibition, Core Gallery, Seattle, WA

2017 Imagine 2017 Art Expo, Wailoa Art Center, Hilo Hawaii

2015 Contemporary Fiber Art, Wailoa Art Center, Hilo Hawaii

2015 International Art Exhibition, Volcano Art Center, Niaulani Campus, Volcano, Hawaii

2014 International Art Exhibition, Volcano Art Center, Niaulani Campus, Volcano, Hawaii