I am a ceramist born and raised in LA. Community is the heart of my art practice.
Artifact Memory Project
2026 — Ongoing
How do we activate memory? I envision it through clay and story. Each person shapes a handheld clay impression or sculpture, which joins the Artifact Memory Project Library, along with a brief written reflection on their experience or connection to place.
These are tangible artifacts of memory — objects made and passed down generationally. This project serves as an educational tool, illuminating the concentration camps, detention centers, and assembly centers of WWII, alongside other places that hold personal stories.
Furusato
2026
Furusato translates to hometown or ancestral home. It’s where our Japanese heart or ancestral DNA wants to return. This documentary is made in collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Alejandro Palacios.
Belly Like Drum: Recipes for building community
2025
Belly Like Drum offers recipes for building community through stories, interviews, poems, and artwork. The community cookbook highlights treasured family meals and meaningful dishes from members of Nikkei Progressives—a grassroots group based in Little Tokyo standing against injustice, and inequality.
Purchase online or in store with the Japanese American National Museum, or at Nellitas Craft