Yamaguchi is known for her delicate portrayals of girls onto whom she projects her own aesthetic sensibilities, layering subtle emotions and the passing of time into their forms to evoke memories nestled deep within the viewer. In this new body of work, these girls appear as serene, tree-like figures: rooted, silent, and quietly resolute, as if anchoring themselves to the earth.

At the heart of this exhibition lies the memory of a single plane tree. Once standing in a nearby schoolyard, the tree had grown so large that it had enveloped a fire hydrant box. When the school was rebuilt, the tree was cut down and, upon removing the hydrant, a large, square hole remained in the trunk. That very sight of nature having shaped itself around a man-made object left a lasting impression on Yamaguchi. It captured the ambiguous threshold between presence and absence, the boundary between the natural and artificial, and the transience of things.