Yuka Numata was born in Chiba Prefecture in 1992. She studied abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2019–2020 and graduated from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts in 2022. A member of the digital-native generation that has grown up with the internet as an everyday presence, Numata incorporates the sense of the times and distinctive features of the contemporary era and the characteristics of her generation into her works. Her medium of choice is a child’s toy, namely plastic beads that are fused together with the heat from an iron. In the process of laying out each bead, one by one, to create an image, while hinting at the analogue, she causes a breakdown of the image as it appears digitally. In doing so, she deploys a method of expression that is in its own new dimension, one that is neither two-dimensional nor three-dimensional.