Takahashi Aoi was born in Miyagi Prefecture in 1999, and graduated the University of Tsukuba Craft Department in 2022, before enrolling in the Tajimi Pottery Design Technical Institute, graduating from advanced studies there in 2025.  Her work has been featured in New Wind - Design and Expression at the Nagoya Takashimaya in 2023, and Nipponbashi Tokyo Takashimaya in 2024.   She was selected as a finalist at the Taiwan Ceramics Biennale at the Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taipei in 2024.

The works in "growing" are covered with hand formed tassels, whose twisted bodies flowing like fur or a school of fish, are traces of the repeated action of twisting and pasting soil for several months, and I am confused, distressed, and tired of this act. It makes me want to let go of thinking and relax. But it continues, and I must continue. This is similar to daily life. We live in a world that is established by interaction with others, and we communicate many of our thoughts and feelings through words and actions. However, how our inner selves are conveyed varies depending on the receiver, and there are many parts that we cannot control. It is too long a process to express oneself purely, and words in particular become contaminated by vanity and desire along the way. This is why I want to acknowledge my own vanity and immaturity, and by ruminating on my floating thoughts and feelings through repeated movements, I want to reel in a sense of the reality of the fact that I am alive right now. The time I devoted to covering the body with an enormous number of tassels resides and remains in the work. I am creating evidence that I was the "truth.

I create works only for myself, but I want them to be a starting point for people who see them to think. Life may be a repetition of the same days, and we don't know where the end is. We don't know what tomorrow will bring, but we usually come and spend another day. If we spend our days inoffensively, we may be able to survive in the sense of survival. But that doesn't mean we're alive, just not dead. I want to accept the pain and suffering I feel every day without shying away from it, and live this moment as if it were a living moment of time.