Kei Takemura's atelier is located in Gunma Prefecture.

In the high-ceilinged atelier, various colored silk threads are placed here and there.

When you visit the atelier, you will find a shelf full of dishes and vessels, and she will prepare a nice cup and make tea for you.

"I think the silkworms are being kept alive," she said, and she decided to set up an atelier in Gunma, where silkworm rearing is carried out.

From the moment the eggs are placed, the life of the silkworm is determined.

The works made with the silk thread created by countless silkworms cutting their lives, as if those works were a requiem.

She is creating works using such silk threads.

Her works sewn with silk threads are all unfinished, and if you pull one side, it will come off. Without beginning or end, the work is drifting without a period.

The "Repair Series" wraps the broken precious things of someone with a translucent cloth and repairs the broken parts with silk threads. It is easy to ignore or discard the moment when it was broken. This act of "Repair" serves as a poignant reminder of the transient nature of existence, emphasizing the preciousness of each fleeting moment.

We humans, too, are born and broken. Even so, we love many things and lose them as we advance. In this kind and cruel flow of time, the artist repairs the broken and gives it light with silk threads, keeping it even if it is only for a "while." Is it prayer, lingering attachment, or love? In any case, there is an inescapable beauty in it.

The "Time Counter" that continues to sew silk threads in a certain width expresses the time we have lived as a fact. With various memories, we are alive now and forever.

It is difficult to express the time in words, as if the hand pointing to the moon is not the moon itself. As soon as you try to grasp it with words (symbols), it loses its true feeling as a reality and falls apart in front of your eyes. Her works seem to embody such an elusive thing called time.