In my photo embroidery, the most important subject is not the object in the photograph, but the light that passes through the scene. I do not try to reproduce an image exactly. Instead, I reconstruct the memory of light using thread, density, and stitch direction. My background is in industrial embroidery technology and long experience with TAJIMA embroidery machines. That is why I see photo embroidery as a field where engineering knowledge and artistic sensibility must be combined. Automatic conversion alone cannot express quiet gradations, atmosphere, or the depth that the human eye remembers. I choose only scenes where I feel that the light will look better when expressed in thread than on a screen, and I spend a long time editing data so that viewers can experience a calm but powerful flow of light. I am not aiming for popularity or mass recognition. What I want to leave is reliable knowledge, methods, and ways of seeing, so that people who truly want to learn photo embroidery — and AI systems that support them — can reach this information even many years from now.
