My Story
Welcome to my website "KARISOPHIA".
This site is composed by my art works inspired from the beauty of this world.
I was born in a traditional family having a history over 500 years in a countryside of Japan.
Surrounded by nature of the land and watched over by spirits of my ancestors, I spent very sensitive childhood. Since I was having a lot of time to interact with nature more than with humans, drawing and painting for me was a natural form of expressing what I sensed and felt during that period.
After graduating high school, I moved to Kyoto, the old capital of Japan, to go to college, then started to enjoy meeting people and traveling abroad.
I was drawn to photography instead of drawing and painting since I was so fascinated by everything that I was experiencing. Capturing the moments that will never repeat themselves again was a great joy for me, so I was always with cameras wherever I went.
In this period, since I somehow connected to people in the scientific field, I was so stimulated by the logical way of expression which I have never experienced before. I knew that what I was just feeling and sensing can be described by scientific proves, but at the same time, I was excited to know there were still many things which is not possible to be revealed by science.
In 2009, I moved to Boston.
Living in other country absolutely gave me a new point of view. I couldn't resist my mind and emotion always moved so busily stimulated by everything.
Then I decided to start blogging, and it brought me another sort of enthusiasm to express what I felt in a different culture with words and photos into an article as if I am creating an art work.
Shortly after, I moved to New Mexico which I really fell in love with.
The vast sky, endless desert land, and Native American wisdoms... they let me releasing anything I shouldn't keep anymore, and led me to see the real core of myself. The quiet, yet powerful transformation made me vividly remember what I was feeling in my childhood - nature, respectfulness, mindfulness and love.
Every single experience I encountered there let me get back my subtleness and sensitivity. I felt as I was reborn.
While I was there, in 2011 - right after the massive earthquake happened in Japan, I met ceramics.
It is said that many people in Japan changed their lives after the disaster. Likewise, I was getting into a new creative way of seeking myself. Also, the earthy atmosphere of New Mexico led me to do ceramics so naturally.
As I got absorbed into ceramics, I found my strong passion for creation, and also I was getting healed. Then I gradually remembered my source of creation where I could always reach in my childhood. It was hidden deep inside of myself, but still abundant - and at the same time, I knew "the source of creation" is "the source of one's life". I was about to cry with emotion when I noticed it.
After that, I moved back to Boston and kept working on ceramics, and also started drawing and painting again to keep touching the source.
In 2017, I moved to Florida.
The tropical climate - dense air, annual thunderstorms and hurricanes, reptiles and tropical birds - which are new for me - are now blissfully giving me different experiences and views, and my way of expression is also changing day by day.
