With a sensitive heart, an artist’s eye and a determined interest in passing on stories, I encapsulate snippets of the ordinary and not so ordinary, using a mixed-media/multimedia approach.

Through my lens, regular people become universal heroes, and our everyday activities are appreciated as rituals that contribute to the wholeness and rhythm of our American lives. My passion for capturing stories is apparent in several short documentaries I produced and edited over the past 10 years.

My personal journey of self-discovery has evolved from exploring and transforming my inner landscape to gathering stories about my Japanese American heritage and also recording the stories of others. These include video footage and installations about my ancestors, artists, everyday happenings and inspirational people I have met.

My responsibility as an artist-storyteller is to keep the stories alive through artful documentation, sharing and passing them along to future generations.