Born in Tokyo, she is both an artist and an animator. Her work focuses on the relationship between the corporeality of characters in contemporary digital animation and the emotional and spiritual corporeality of real-life beings, constructing, through artistic means, the spaces and atmospheres in which animated characters can “exist.”

Her series “Screenshots of Ghosts” takes the concept of the ghost (オバケ) technique in animation as a starting point, exploring the relationship between the soul (anima) and body of digital animation characters. Animation is composed of 24 frames per second, and continuous playback creates a sense of motion. In 20th-century commercial animation, “limited animation” techniques were developed to reduce costs, showing movement with fewer frames. This approach has continued into the digital era, where the “ghost” emerges as traces between frames, existing in the temporal gaps—a moment of a character’s motion or emotional tremor, as well as an extension of the animator’s bodily sense.

In her work, these “ghosts” are temporarily placed into the frame using the same material as the character, symbolizing the vessel and kinetic energy of the character’s soul. She considers life in animation as an extremely abstract form of the soul—without fixed shape, yet carrying warmth and perception, organic and unpredictable like human emotions. By observing the presence of these “ghosts,” viewers also glimpse the consciousness and soul contours of both the animator and real-life existence.