Mapping imaginative thoughts through drawing, Aoki’s visual vocabulary is one grounded in everyday objects expressed through a childlike lens. Through metonymical associations and small details that represent a larger whole, Aoki creates expressive, flickering scenes with line, contour, and shading. Employing memory and processes of Freudian free association, she creates fictionalized realities by translating abstract ideas, fragmented thoughts, and found objects into images that build a personal mythology. Favoring motifs of flowers, animals, and young girls as symbols of innocence, Aoki creates drawings that evoke a primitive mode of thinking in which the real and the imagined are both indistinguishable and equally important.