When Japanese words say it just so

Pairing two seemingly dissimilar images together to show a similar relationship.

Somehow she knew she was to do something with the paper, that she was meant to find it. Or maybe it found her. Because it seemed the vessels were trying to show her something, another way.

Repeating is deeply within us, a dynamic, cyclical, ever-present repeating.

There’s always so much more to the story than what’s there.

The idea of coming together, the expression in assemblage bundles, and working in the opposite way...

What happens when differences get close to each other, and discover that something lively happens…

Assemblage – the process of bringing together things that might not get along, or maybe they do, or maybe we’re not sure. But we can try.

I started making wands. I mean, I call them wands. But they’re not a special stick possessing any magical abilities. Or are they?

How materials from the earth, from near and very far, brought my family together one sunny afternoon.

I feel these handmade brushes are not afraid of getting messy, and not afraid of their wild side in making marks…

Winter – a season of a gathering energies and bundling up. But what happens when we free from them, too?

Sometimes we’re a little crooked and just need to be realigned. The story of a healing chime’s own healing.