Artwork

Tadaima

A video built around a miniature of the house she grew up in.

Tadaima video still: the warm-lit interior of a miniature model house with a low table, sliding shoji screens and small figures
Tadaima, 2003. Video.

About this work

This piece is based on a repeating dream I have had occasionally since I was a teenager. For it I made a miniature of the house I lived in from birth until I was eleven years old. Since the house no longer exists, I relied on my uncertain memory.

Tadaima (ただいま) is what you say when you come home.