Kanako Namura was born in Japan and received her MFA from San Francisco State University. She moved to Mexico City in 2011 and on her first Christmas Eve encountered confetti. She became infatuated with the material for its simplistic charm and for what it symbolized. The colorful specks of recycled paper represent festivity and bursts of liberation. She also believes that the temporary and transient nature of this material heightens its beauty much like cherry blossoms, treasured for that very same reason in Japan. It touches upon the aesthetic of fleeting moments and the impermanence of life. Her new series using watercolor tinted ice cubes, also address that same idea. She explores the transformative nature of water by first creating ice cubes. She then lets them melt and evaporate until what is left is a mark on paper, or rather a record of what it was
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