I first became infatuated with lotuses in 2018 and featured them in many of my works. Everything of the plant captivated me – the large flowers first drew me in and then the leathery leaves dancing in the wind, nodding above the mud and water, captured my imagination. I sketched at the Sinobazu Pond, a famous location for lotus-viewing, in Tokyo and I tried to visualize myself as a lotus with my face turned to the sky. From there I thought of what the sky looks like from earth and how the sky might appear from space. These spaces are literally far apart from each other, but perhaps, they are also closely bound and unified.