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I used to walk past them without a second thought-the weeds at the edge of the path, the grasses growing wild. One day, without knowing why, my gaze fell upon them. They are not truly without names, and yet they live as though nameless, stepped on without notice, cut back without hesitation. In their quiet, unacknowledged lives, I caught a glimpse of myself. So I began to wonder if I might return their lost names to them, and seek out the reason they endure.

They are everywhere-on vacant ground, along the roadside, even in the cracks of the city-present, yet invisible. Weeds that are trampled, severed, dismissed, and still they grow back. Like every plant, they are fragile, but they carry their own ways of survival, strategies of persistence. Somehow, that resilience echoed my own struggle to continue working, and the lives of other artists who share this time. This work follows those strategies of survival. What began in the likeness I found between myself and the weeds has become a way of looking back on life through theirs-a meditation on endurance, on fragility, and on what it takes to keep living as an artist.

I used to walk past them without a second thought-the weeds at the edge of the path, the grasses growing wild. One day, without knowing why, my gaze fell upon them. They are not truly without names, and yet they live as though nameless, stepped on without notice, cut back without hesitation. In their quiet, unacknowledged lives, I caught a glimpse of myself. So I began to wonder if I might return their lost names to them, and seek out the reason they endure.

They are everywhere-on vacant ground, along the roadside, even in the cracks of the city-present, yet invisible. Weeds that are trampled, severed, dismissed, and still they grow back. Like every plant, they are fragile, but they carry their own ways of survival, strategies of persistence. Somehow, that resilience echoed my own struggle to continue working, and the lives of other artists who share this time. This work follows those strategies of survival. What began in the likeness I found between myself and the weeds has become a way of looking back on life through theirs-a meditation on endurance, on fragility, and on what it takes to keep living as an artist.

Henbit deadnettle, 2024Digital inkjet print, 127x101.6cm, ed.10

Creeping jenny, 2024Digital inkjet print, 127x101.6cm, ed.10

Asian greater celandine, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 127x101.6cm, ed.10

Slender-leaf Indian lettuce, 2024-2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Prickly lecttuce, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Stickwilly, 2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Three-flower bedstraw, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Kamchatka plantain, 2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Seashore yarrow, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Eastern brakenfern, 2024-2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Nerved-fruit sedge, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Pilose lespedeza, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Yellow bristlegrass, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Awned rice flatsedge, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Oriental yellowhead, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Asian copperleaf, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Wing stem, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Miquel’s mazus, 2024-2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

German rampion, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Asian dayflower, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Horse-nettle, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Tokoro mountain yam, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Southern marigold, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Asian tearthumb, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Violet crabgrass, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Rough potato, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Asian flatsedge, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Oriental garlic, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Three-leaf clematis, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

False strawberry, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Field horsetail, 2023Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Korean wormwood, 2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Parva, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Apple mint, 2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Common leafflower, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Greater beggar's ticks, 2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Japan wood oil, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Common breea, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Little lovegrass, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Tall fleabane, 2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Oriental water-willow, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Tiger lily, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Ricefield flatsedge, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Common brome, 2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Green amaranth, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Spotted bellflower, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Common bluebeard, 2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Rescue brome, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Canton buttercup, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Yellow-flower spanish needle, 2023-2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Split-lip hempnettle, 2025Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

White dutch clover, 2023Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Gold evening primrose, 2024Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

White goosefoot, 2023Digital inkjet print, 76.2x50.8cm, ed.20

Goatsbeard, 2024Digital inkjet print, 152.4x152.4cm, ed.5

Common dandelion, 2024Digital inkjet print, 60.9x60.9cm, ed.15