Kazumi Jude Yamazaki is an American artist whose work addresses structures in nature via the arrangement and manipulation of organic shapes. His early collage work focuses on inner nature, making use of shapes and symbols to describe psychological events. His current practice encompasses watercolors, printmaking, collage and embroidery. The simultaneous repetition and variety of shapes whether cut out or embroidered recalls systems in nature. He cites evolutionary phenomena as a guiding principle in the development of his work. There are forms that blend into the 'canvas' and forms that blend out. The layering and intersection of transparent shapes expresses a general ambiguity in terms of boundaries in the natural world, it creates new shapes thereby increasing complexity which is characteristic of natural systems in general.