“His life as an artist has been committed to creating work that combines Eastern and Western attributes, giving rise to an unfamiliar wholeness. In the beginning of this series, Takigawa was interested in working with familiar and familial objects. He was seeing pattern on pattern as a way of expressing the background as subject—making subject and background inseparable and equal. Later in the series, he began exploring the feelings of wanting to be more connected to his family and its history—to bring old memories into the present and make them new—to give them renewed expression and life in the present. The images incorporate family/friend photographs, both vintage and contemporary, along with artifacts and objects that are meaningful to him today. Portraying the past as soft-focus and combining it with relevant elements of the present, there is a resolution and integration of time and relationships, making the past alive and meaningful in the present. For Takigawa, this work is a synthesis of history, the present, and a faith in the future.”

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