ich-noumi ( ocean of ‘I’ ), 2026, 21×14.8cm, mixed media
photo credit Zeynop Ekim
Easy and Easy, 2026, Reading-Performance, 30 minutes
My language is an odd shape and inaccurate outside my mother tongue. I stumble all the time, failing to pronounce and spell words. If one is not a form of holometabolism, a body cannot transform into a native speaker. I speak English as my second language; I am like a tennis player playing tennis with a ping-pong racket. I speak German as my third language, POV: a flute player who plays music by a drainpipe. Language learning is repetitive, time-consuming, and painful. Especially speaking and writing, nervousness grows for correctness, and overdoing practices piled up in my mind.
In my reading performance titled Easy and Easy, I introduce several short texts about language learning and its bittersweet. Vocabulary is regulated, but acquiring knowledge to explain about oneself is a social need for belonging outside a mother tongue. How is an artist as a language learner gaining the power of creation? If all things are Übung (practice) in both inside a language school and its outside, when comes the real thing? Period.
Seaweed in landscape, 2025, water color and pencil, 21 x 14.8cm
Examined seaweed, 2025, watercolor and pencil, 21 x 14.8 cm
Me Speak, 2025, ballppoint pen and water color on paper, 20.8 x 14.6 cm
Singing Like a Song, 2025, textile collage with hand stitching embroidery on self dyed fabric, 22x16cm
i can spiku (I can speak), 2025, 45.5x27cm, textile collage with hand stitching
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Das Gurke Heimweh/ きゅうりホームシック/Cucumber Homesick, 2025, reading performance with music, 30 Minutes, language DE/JP/EN, performed at Internationales Poesiefestival Erich Fried, day 2, with Ann Cotten and Kanako Tada, collaboration with Mario Schlager
photo credit Literaturehaus Wien
Seaweed Kissed a Rumor, 2024, Pottery