Sometimes unseen, sometimes almost clear—
yet always a heart to care for.
In an age overflowing with information,
we may ask ourselves:
“Is the self I’m seeing truly my own?”
“Who am I?
What do I long for?
Where is my inner compass pointing?”
We live a lifelong narrative of shaping ourselves
while searching for these answers.
To live in honesty with oneself is, I believe,
the beginning of honesty toward others,
toward all living beings,
toward the planet,
and toward existence itself.
When you reunite with the you who gently speaks within…
when you offer unwavering love to yourself…
and when that love softens and fills you…
we naturally extend compassion and tenderness
to the many beings around us.
My artwork echoes a universal inquiry:
“Who Am I?”
It is an intimate dialogue for anyone
who has ever asked this question—
at any moment in life.
My hope is that each individual may listen, observe, and feel;
that through my work, they may find quiet comfort,
especially you—
who live with loneliness, with pain,
or with the fear of your own darkness.
See yourself.
Hear yourself.
Feel yourself.
Speak to yourself.
May you, in every season of your life
and in every version of yourself,
find a way to hold yourself.
I, too, live in continuous inner dialogue—
always quietly asking:
“Who Am I?”
“Who Am I ?”
by T O M O K O