These works are part of Takahashi’s "Seeing You/Seeing Me" project. In 2021-2022, she is expanding this project into a participatory community project happening in multiple U.S. locations, including Massachusetts, New Mexico, Georgia, Oregon, and elsewhere.

During her recent artist residency in GA, she met 8 artists from the east coast and the southern U.S. It was her first time in the southern part of the U.S. She was kind of excited to meet other artists there right after the legendary GA election of 2020, while a bit nervous to be in a historically conservative state. After a few days of adjustment for her and for them with Takahashi’s accent, she reached out to two Atlanta-based artists to camouflage themselves inside personal domes, which Takahashi constructed at the residency. Within each mirrored dome, they were all visually obscured from the outside but still recognizable as human forms. While in the individual domes, they talked about their thoughts on their family or their immigration experiences.

At another residency in MA, Takahashi met two artists whose spouses are the first person in the family to immigrate to the US. Takahashi asked them to participate in the “Seeing You/Seeing Me” project to talk about their perspectives towards their own country’s immigration system.