This page is where I show my sketches, little bits and pieces of my life and where I post links to articles and artists that catch my interest. As for myself, I live between the city of Rome and the countryside of Rome where I have an olive grove to tend and olive oil to produce. I am of Japanese and American parentage and was born and raised in the heart of Rome, Italy, surrounded by an artistica
lly inclined family from the very start. My international background and early diversified education gave me the possibility to live multiple cultures during my youth that are now profoundly embedded in the way I live and the art I make. My passion for the arts lead me to study music at the Rome conservatory, traditional japanese dance and shodo (the art of calligraphy) in Fukushima, Japan, and to earn a degree in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology of Chicago. The fascination for the elegance of the imperfect, the impermanent, the incomplete, are evident in how I approach art. I tend to depicts moods captured from music, literature and my complicated self.
