today, tomorrow, forever...

This necklace is one of my new collections.  There are two diamonds, black and white and it says "today, tomorrow, forever".  It represents a clock that will not stop.  

After moving to New York from Japan, I started thinking about time a lot.  Each time I go back to Japan to see my parents, I realize I have been away from my home for a long time.  New faces, new buildings, new kinds of emotions I have never expected to have, all of us are walking to the next stage of our lives.  I have learned that time heals, time effaces, time gives.

food allergy and super white laundry

I have got allergy from Mango (I guess) the day before my friend's wedding.  

I called a doctor and I was told to go to his Bay Ridge, Brooklyn office.  

Very depressed to go out with my swollen face.  Bay Ridge is a place I have never been to, but I felt calm when I got off a train and saw the town.  

 I took this picture at Bay Ridge - super white laundry hang on a long line - I think I may like this person who did this laundry.

my sis and father

My sister is a librarian and an actress at the same time.  

I couldn't stop myself uploading this picture when I saw one online.  

She is the one in the blue dress.  I mean, this big hair!  Wow!  Go my sis!

She played one the sisters from Chekhov's "Three Sisters" a few week ago in Japan.

It was a big thing for our family - for the first time my father went to see my sister's stage.  

He had refused to see it for more than 20 years since she started acting.  Just thinking of the fact that he decided to see her playing makes me cry.

sunday night

Will you be my friend, Gus?  

Sunday night, after a glass of wine and cheese with my great friends and their two cats.

plastic bottle chandelier

At this park, these plastic bottle chandeliers appeared suddenly.  

They are so beautiful when light hits the colored water inside bottles.

under the bridge

Saturday afternoon, we encountered this beautiful wedding at Dumbo Brooklyn.  After the wedding ceremony, three more couples showed up here for their wedding photo shoot.  

People from various countries cross in New York.  Watching international couples and attendee in their ethnic costumes made me feel great to be here in Brooklyn.

behind story -a night in the forest

I used to live in this place in Osaka.  

Behind our apartment there was a small forest.  

One day our cat ran away to the forest and we thought we would never find her.  

But the cat came back next day - becoming totally different wild, scary creature.

I, as a three year old girl, was wondering what the forest did to the cat.

I constantly dreamed about this story since then, and now I am actually not sure if it really happened in my life or I created a part of the story in my dream.  Anyways, I am somehow obsessed with a night in the forest.   

The scenery in this earring is about an animal looking back the forest where stars are chasing after him.

interview with flashfilm

Check this cool fashion online-magazine "flashfilm".

The great thing about this Japanese online-magazine is they write both in English and Japanese.

Not only that, their archive of jewelry designers' interview is amazing.

It was interesting experience that I answered in English and they translated into my native language, Japanese.

Thank you flashfilm!

sunday

Sunday afternoon-

when old building was removed to build a new condo in Brooklyn,

this beautiful withered ivy was shown.