Through a being in the shape of a girl who continues to drift without being able to become a snow crystal, I expressed the feeling of being unable to take the same form as those around you because of slight differences in conditions. Humans appear only as large hands, never showing their faces or bodies. The warmth of the hand she first touches causes her to lose her crystal form, and in the final scene she drifts back onto that same hand. The same human warmth is both what transforms her and, in the end, what receives her. I placed this kind of touch, which cannot be reduced to a single simple meaning, at the center of the work. I also sought to depict blue not merely as a symbol of sadness, but as a color containing the coldness of rain, light, the sensation of wetness, and transparency. I wanted the ending not to be closed off as either salvation or despair, but to leave room for it to be read as either loneliness or comfort.

The work begins with the idea of portraying the virtual singer “Hika-ji” as a being that contains multiple layers of wounds, and visualizing a sense of life that includes her fluctuations and fragility. Set in a seashore, a symbolic space of transience, the work layers the continuous flow of time in animation with fragments of time captured in film photographs, bringing forth both emotions that keep flowing and memories that remain still. Through physical alterations to the photographs and the use of blurring effects, the work attempts to abstractly visualize the sensation of experiences etched within her, surfacing as layered traces.

Ending theme for the TV anime "With You and the Rain." “filled” as the antonym of “empty” Even when we don’t know what kindness or doing the right thing looks like, there are moments when we’re unexpectedly comforted by the time we spend with someone or something. When you’re struggling, I hope there’s someone or somewhere you can go to and let your feelings out. They don’t need to answer; it could be a pet, a doll, a fictional being, or even yourself. Even if you know you’ll lose that presence someday, there are times when the moments you share now feel undeniably meaningful. Perhaps that is a small prayer to keep living, even while carrying feelings that can’t be put into words. Not denying loneliness. But not locking it away either. I wanted to depict the kind of time that gently gathers up the identity of that warmth as it gradually takes shape. I created this work hoping that, for those who watch it, it would become a time of quietly facing the emotions deep in the heart, a time in which something slowly begins to feel full.