The Fearful Side

Along the way, I’ve lost the ability to be brave. These sentiments reverberate throughout my work and in my choices in life. I’ve succumbed to diluted projections of the world, of others, and what I imagine they would want, instead of yielding to the wave of what it needs to be. I tell myself often: […]

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When Creation Runs Dry

Oftentimes I sit in a daze, unsure of anything. I sit for hours, days. And yet nothing comes to me. There are no epiphanies, no moments of revelation. Simply, a vast landscape of white sweeps before me, a desolate and rolling mental scene. This is not new. These persistent emotions, although a discomfort, have made […]

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Dear Japan. A Letter To My Home

Dear Japan, First, I want to say that I love you. You were the country where I took my first breath. My lungs filled with your air, and from there I was home. My first tears happened in your hospitals. My cries echoed throughout the hallway and took me throughout my childhood, becoming laughter, then […]

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