The paintings completed during Takagishi's 4 week stay at Arts Itoya comprise the collection "An Invitation for Stillness". These paintings reflect on senses of home but also feelings of otherness as a yonsei Japanese American returning to her ancestral homeland. The work highlights anachronistic vestiges of Japanese culture, and contemplates the foreign feeling of rediscovering your own culture. This collection of paintings additionally aims to immerse the viewer in ephemeral moments, meant to capture the unique slow pace of living in Takeo, or "Takeo time".