The Kibō Nobori (“Hope Flag”) series

The Kibō Nobori series was inspired by the artist’s experience of becoming a mother and by the Japanese tradition of koinobori - carp-shaped windsocks flown across Japan on Children’s Day - which she reinterprets as a contemporary installation of suspended textile flags that both honors and reimagines the custom.

The ongoing series now includes more than forty large-scale chiffon textile flags. Each work is created from layered photographic imagery printed onto translucent fabric, combining portraits from the artist’s personal archive, patterns from her maternal grandmother’s kimono and scarf collection, landscapes, and symbolic forms.

Installed together, the flags move with air and light, creating a field of soft monuments that suggest dream-like fields of play, childlike joy, and collective hope.

Each presentation responds to the architecture, landscape, and community of the site.