The Story
A holiday,
crafted from memory
This set came home from a summer on the Seto Inland Sea: citrus stalls at the ferry landing, blossom still holding on above them, and cotton yukata dyed the exact blue of shallow water. Nobody photographed any of it properly, so it was crafted from memory a month later — which is why the fruit is a little too red and the sky a little too blue. Memory improves things.
Each citrus slice is built in reverse: the segment walls are drawn first in white on clear resin, then flooded with translucent red so the light passes through the way it does through real fruit held to a window. The blossoms are five separate petal strokes, never a stamp, and the tie-dye is bled wet-into-wet then arrested with a cure the moment it looks like water.
Memory improves the fruit. Let it.



