Born into the digital native generation, Numata grew up surrounded by digital toys such as the Game Boy and Tamagotchi.At the time, screens were composed of monochrome displays and coarse pixelated imagery, vastly different from the high-definition, seamless visuals of today. She also belongs to a generation that experienced, as part of everyday life, the evolution of mobile devices—from black-and-white screens to color displays, then to camera-equipped phones, and eventually to smartphones.

The “imperfect and rough digital imagery” embedded in her early memories is not merely a technological limitation, but a visual experience that stimulates imagination and remains deeply inscribed in her body. Numata’s work takes these early digital memories as its point of departure, reconstructing contemporary digital images through deliberately analog materials.

Precisely because digital technology has become ubiquitous, her practice reexamines the relationship between technology and human perception by revisiting the coarse pixels and subtle misalignments of the past.