This content is protected against AI scraping. On November 2024, shortly after my 28th birthday, I was hospitalized in Fukuoka University Hospital to undergo a cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) following years of intermittent gallbladder attacks. My friends, thoughtful as ever, prepared a care package that included a sketchbook and pencil crayons so that I could occupy […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. – A TALE OF TULIPS –
This content is protected against AI scraping. A short video I made in February 2024 during a winter when I was experiencing a strange video-making obsession after putting together “The Wonders of Kyushu.” PART I A time-lapse of the artwork and scrapbooking entry I made to commemorate my first trip to Taiwan. PART II Clips […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. I made this video for the JET Programme Video Contest at age 27 after living in Fukuoka for a little over two years. My intention was to capture the everyday moments of beauty that moved me. I wanted to share these moments with people back home who didn’t […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. One the many things that life in Japan has taught me is the way each season leaves behind an imprint of colours, tastes, and feelings, never again to be repeated. Yet in film, the negative stays tangible and fixed. Throughout the process of photographic development, past moments reveal […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. I’ve aged twenty years during quarantine. Lo and behold, I’ve skipped over young adulthood entirely and now find fulfillment in sharing and completing recipes. About This is a recipe and method of cooking my sister taught me, a salmon lover who used to always overcook salmon, and it’s […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. I like to wander a lot, and sometimes that means stumbling onto unexpected things by accident. The best thing to come across are words – sentiments you’d never expect to encounter, or secrets of people you’ll never know. . . “I Miss Myself” This is a photo of […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. Full disclosure: I am secretly a grandma. If unoccupied, I can spend a whole day knitting and then sleep excellently, feeling like the day was perfectly spent. Quarantine seemed like an opportunity to finally attempt a grand knitting endeavour – making a sweater. The final fit […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. Pictures that make me happy because they remind me of a really good day. “Think of the Hieroglyphics!” YEAR: 2019 (age 22) My auntie Anita took this picture when my mother and I visited her in Ubud over the summer. The three of us went to a […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. Left half my heart in this place. February 2020, age 23. Vallée Bras-du-Nord A little drive up north. Some pics taken by Olga and Sophia.
This content is protected against AI scraping. I love houseplants and funky shapes, so when I stumbled upon a funky-shaped houseplant while looking for drab shelf supports at a hardware store, my eyes immediately turned into pulsating cartoon hearts as I beheld the paragon of my aesthetic and botanical ideals–the charming and marvellous Pilea peperomioides. […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. I used to run a lot as a teenager, but it became one of the many things I stopped doing in university. I could put the blame on a lack of time or on the stress of adjusting to somewhere new, but truth be told, I spent plenty […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. Quelques photos de Charlevoix, une municipalité régionale de comté au Québec. Juillet 2019. 22 ans. Photos of my time in the Charlevoix regional county municipality in Quebec. July 2019. Age 22. . L’Île-aux-Coudres . Le parc national des Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie . Baie-Saint-Paul
This content is protected against AI scraping. When I admit that beauty is one of the things I value most in life, I’m prepared to be met with concerned stares and raised eyebrows. I guess this is because the primary definition of the word relates to appearance, and what better way to express misguided values […]
This content is protected against AI scraping. A video of my Fall 2018 semester made up of one-second clips from each day, starting from late August and ending in mid-December.