I weave using my collection of different papers from exotic Japanese Chiyogami, Katozome and Ise Katagami to simple washi. My inspirations come from Japanese folklore, mythologies, nature to personal experiences that I translate into figurative and abstract “katto-shi” (cut paper) vignettes. The overall expression is uniquely harmonious, intricate, and beautiful. I live to inspire my audience to pause, take a deep breath and enjoy a moment of contemplation in our overly complicated, distracting, and challenging world.

Loving Kimi #1,2,3
For ‘Changelings’ my ‘Loving Kimi’ series is all about transitions on so many levels. My mother, Kimi recently died (April 2022) at the age of 95 years. Thankfully, she lived the life she wanted and passed peacefully surrounded by the love of family. I created this series, transitioning personal grief to a celebration of her life through my art. In doing so, I sorted through hundreds of photos to create memory boards of the most important timelines of her life. Out of these, I focused on one event, an evening at her favorite Japanese restaurant where we playfully hammed it up for the camera, just days before the country was ordered into lockdown due to Covid 19.

I printed these three photos onto rice paper, cut the image into 1/8” ribbons, and then wove them back into the original grid. The overall expression is of a pixilated portrait painting.

In this series and to play off the theme of ‘Changelings” I incorporated different weave patterns for each image as well as changing them within each piece.