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I am in residence at AIR 3331 Iwamotocho Studio for the entire month of November 2025. Following a two-month pilgrimage across Japan, I am taking time to settle down and integrate the many experiences gathered along the way.

This current research-creation project stems from a personal fascination with baseball, and more specifically with one of its simplest yet most symbolically charged forms: home plate, the pentagonal base located at the heart of the field. Home plate embodies the idea of home — of return, departure, and arrival. It anchors the playing field as a symbolic cell, a point of orientation. Through this project, I seek to explore how this geometric form can resonate with broader notions such as home, mental territory, and narrative space.

In resonance with my experience as a tourist in Japan, I am reflecting on the proximity of bodies, intimate space, and modesty within the culture of communal bathing (onsen and sento), and on the ways of inhabiting through one’s relationship to another’s space.

Between the home of baseball (a place of exaltation) and the bathhouses (places of relaxation), intimacy finds no place of its own. The body is public, and the social boundaries of intimacy are dictated by respect for convention. It is within this line of thought that I am currently developing an installation project.

I plan to create a series of drawings and graphic compositions exploring the symbolic and aesthetic potential of the baseball home plate. These forms will be reworked with gold leaf, giving them a visual density that evokes both preciousness and contemplation. These “golden diamonds,” presented either individually or in modular arrangements, will function as narrative fragments orbiting around the ideas of dwelling, intimacy, and the return home.