My parents married in Kyoto,Japan, where my sister and I were born, but we grew up in China. As my parents travelled frequently between the two countries, Japan remained present in my life through family memory. Now, as my father works in Kyoto, I have begun to reconnect more. In the summer of 2025, this long-standing connection became a real and shared experience.
Inspired by my mother’s art-historical research on Tsushima, my family reunited in Japan after many years apart and began a road trip from Kyoto. We travelled through Takiba, Tottori, and Fukuoka, eventually arriving in Tsushima. Along the way, we visited shrines, gardens, museums, and galleries, and the journey gradually formed a slow and quiet rhythm between movement and stillness.
Within these spaces, I became drawn to a sense of order and restraint shaped by time, and to the traces of civilisation embedded in the environments. This quiet experience gradually informed my design language. I began to see garments as landscapes that hold memory, using material, structure, and layering to reflect the relationship between time and emotion. This project therefore becomes not only a collection of garments, but a small landscape shaped by memory and material, carrying forward the calm and strength I felt during the journey.
