I have an ongoing concern with women artisans, which led me to think about Nakanojo’s sericulture heritage. In the Meiji and Showa era, women were a vital economic force here, raising silkworms and preparing silk that left Yokohama, destined for the world. I reflected on traditions of craft that commingle with winter economies in agricultural communities, and workers who are deemed occasional due to their shift patterns or their work
location within the home. These thoughts mixed with themes of weaving families through imperfect daily nurture and invented traditions. I wanted to make a work that paid attention to the cocooning rhythms of home. A space of metamorphosis and reemerging, for a new world that awaits us, after the lockdown.