Where You Stay draws from personal narratives, uncovering domestic scenes to visually address generational trauma, anxieties, and invisibility. Plants, objects, and vague blurring layers of color obscure one’s view, expressing the in-betweenness of perspective and identity. With veil-like transparencies, figures are camouflaged into familiar interior spaces, representing the invisibility of migrant and diasporic families.
The title “Where You Stay” comes from a Hawaiʻi Creole English phrase, posing the question — where are you located at this very moment? Yamazaki’s work navigates the disjointed concept of “place”, being part of a community he doesn’t have direct lineage to while having limited connection to his own personal generational ties. Where You Stay investigates liminal spaces and incites a conversation between past and present, here and there, fantasy and reality, self and community.
