I once worked in an antique shop. I loved looking at the faded and bleeding ink on devotional prints distributed at temples and shrines, and on woodblock-printed books and old newspapers I found in secondhand bookshops. In the traces left by hand-printing, or the irregularities produced by mechanical errors, I could sense the presence of those involved in printing and the history of the places where they worked.I still visit antique markets and secondhand bookshops to collect old books and printed materials. Sometimes, curiosity leads me to the places where they were printed, to investigate the people involved in their production and the histories surrounding them. This fieldwork informs my artistic practice today.Using the printed materials I collect or research as motifs, I build up layers of ink through screen printing. I print hundreds of layers by hand, as though retracing the journeys and fates of these publications. Through the accumulation of ink and the gradual disintegration of form, I seek to express the memories of the people and places whose histories were intertwined with these printed materials.