saiho + Sayuri Hayashi Egnell

Imagery Garden

Artist statement

Our installations emerge from memory, landscape, and the subtle transitions found in nature. As Japanese women living abroad, we draw inspiration from childhood recollections of our homeland and the lingering echoes of cultural memory. In Imagery Garden, viewers enter a contemplative space designed for stillness and inward movement. Surrounded by light, sound, and natural elements, they are invited to drift between memory and presence, dream and reality, time and place. Rather than dissolving boundaries, we explore the freedom of moving across them — gently, fluidly, and without fear. In a world increasingly defined by divisions, our work offers a quiet space where borders can be crossed, returned to, and reimagined.

About us

Saiho + Sayuri Hayashi Egnell

“saiho+Sayuri Hayashi Egnell” is an art unit by landscape architect based in US, saiho, and

a music composer based in Sweden, Sayuri Hayashi Egnell.

They create mostly art installations to provide experiences to evoke feelings in viewer’s deep mind

that crosses various boundaries and connects with the world.

They have presented art installation works such as “Beyond the Ocean” at an international art festival in Japan,

BIWAKO Biennale 2020, “To Mothers” at Local Love Art Festival in Oakland CA, and “Imagery Garden” at BIWAKO

Biennale 2022 in Japan. Their first solo exihibtion was held at Gallery Main in Kyoto in May 2023.

Japan / USA

Saiho

A landscape architect, artist, and Ikebana flower arrangement master of the Hofu Enzu school, based in USA. She has been interested in the relationship between people and nature since childhood, and worked with SWA Group and office ma as a landscape

architect and urban designer in San Francisco. She has worked on Dubai Expo 2020, Google office – Mass Timber, and Japanese projects such as DNP’s Ichigaya Forest, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Ball Park, Shibuya Regeneration Project in Tokyo. Her artwork comes from some inspiration and

themes in nature and flowers.

WEB: saiho-scape.com

Japan / Sweden

Sayuri Hayashi Egnell

A musician and artist based in Stockholm, Sweden.

In 2014, she was selected by Ryuichi Sakamoto to receive the Gold Prize in the “International Sound Competition for Urban Space”. In the same year, she composed a piece for the Nobel Peace Prize in an exhibition organized by the Nobel Museum. She has been involved in a wide range of creative activities in Stockholm, including video production, installation, commercial and film soundtrack, sound art, and performance art production. Major works include performance art “mori” (2016), mirror and sound art exhibition “Minnen”(2017), installation art “Beyond the