In September 2024, I joined the Nakanojo Biennale exchange in Xalapa, Mexico—my first time there. Immersed in a new cultural and environmental context, I created work in response to the materials and atmosphere around me. I worked with amate paper, a traditional Mexican material, allowing me to connect place with reflection. What felt most meaningful was the continuity between my past Nakanojo experience, my time in Mexico, and my return to Nakanojo—each moment forming a thread in an ongoing dialogue between the familiar and unfamiliar, the past and present.