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Season three has finished, and Jordana and Paige share their thoughts about what themes came up throughout the season. Thank you for listening and for all your wonderful questions throughout the season. We look forward to seeing you again in 2024 for season four.
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Born in Sydney, Australia, self-taught photographer and videographer Lisa Knight now makes her home here in Tokyo, Japan. Through her work for Tokyo Weekender, Tokyo's longest-running English-language magazine, Lisa provides glimpses into life in the capital that reveal the pulsing aliveness of her subjects. But her lens isn't fixed solely on urban life. Through her photos, Lisa shares her travels both within Japan and abroad, and lets us see people, places, and interiors through her exquisitely-rendered perspective. Whether she's sharing ethereal and riveting photos of natural beauty, or highlighting details that might otherwise go unnoticed, Lisa's work invites us to engage more sensitively with what we see.
Check out Lisa's photographs here
https://www.instagram.com/lisainjapan/?hl=en
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Paige Baldwin Ando
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Jordana Matsuda
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Hailing originally from the Caribbean island of Curacao, Nina Alberg has lived in the Netherlands since the age of 17. Under the name Mimi Moffie, she creates bold, vibrant digital illustrations inspired by women, and that represent Black women in particular. Combining evocative words with vivid images in a way that inspires both thought and action is something that Nina does expertly in her work. The people she draws brim with so much confidence, intelligence, and verve that you can't help but be drawn into their world. Bringing both audaciousness and comfort with their self-expression, the women Nina draws remind us that we're free and welcome to be who we really are.
https://www.instagram.com/mimimoffie
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Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
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Jordana Matsuda https://instagram.com/jordanaillustration
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Originally form London in the United Kingdom, Kat Chetram has lived in Tokyo since 2014. While her primary medium is photography, Kat also dabbles in graphic design, writing, and painting. Kat's street photography invites viewers to get curious about ourselves, others, and the world around us, so that we might find presence, compassion, understanding, and connection. While those invitations may be issued most of the time through her camera lens, Kat explores a wide variety of ways to share and connect creatively including curating a map of her favorite coffee spots around Tokyo.
Find out more here:
https://instagram.com/katologs
https://papersky.jp/en/
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Paige Baldwin Ando
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Jordana Matsuda https://instagram.com/jordanaillustration
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Having been born and raised in rural Ohio in the United States, Melissa Finkenbiner has now lived and created art in the US, Myanmar, Armenia, Zimbabwe, and Japan. As a cross-disciplined fine artist and metalsmith, all of Melissa's work is linked by recycled and sustainable materials with earthy elements.
In her work as a metalsmith, she repurposes vintage silver and copper, or uses recycled metals, including brass. In other works, Melissa uses a variety of materials, sometimes combining ink with plant-based acrylic, undiluted watercolor, conte, and pastels. Most notably, she uses discarded surfaces from glass bottles to tree bark, or sustainable papers from bamboo and recycled pulp. Sustainable practices are at the heart of her process and her packaging.
Over the past 12 years, Melissa has had 21 gallery exhibitions including her 2023 solo show “Elements of Nature Between Skyscrapers” in Ginza, Tokyo. In 2019, the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program purchased three of her mixed media portraits for U.S. Embassy Harare in Zimbabwe.
https://www.melissafinkenbiner.com
https://www.instagram.com/melissafinkenbiner
Do you have a question for the Ask Us Anything segment? Any topic is fine, we love to hear from all our listeners. Email us here and we will do our best to answer your question in one of the episodes. [email protected]
Paige Baldwin Ando
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https://instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
Jordana Matsuda https://instagram.com/jordanaillustration
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Originally from Scotland, ceramicist Laura Pearson has lived in Japan for 8 years. Now based in Shonan Kamakura--a seaside town about an hour from Tokyo--Laura creates unique homeware pieces that center the user's connection with the items they use every day. Paying mind to the textural and sensory experiences people have when using her pieces, Laura hopes to bring joy to people's everyday lives as they undertake daily rituals like drinking a cup of coffee. The organic forms and textures of her pieces evoke the forms and textures of the natural world, and allow their users to form a connection with each of them as unique works of functional art. With a background in textiles, costume, and fashion design, Laura also hopes to incorporate her past experiences into fabric homewares for her brand in the future.
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Kate Sikora is a singer-songwriter from New Jersey, USA, who now lives in Tokyo, Japan. Kate has been writing lyrics and poetry since she could pick up a pen, and started learning guitar at age 12 in order to turn her poetry into songs.
Kate’s emphasis has always been on lyrics, with the music taking shape around them. She's been compared to artists such as Liz Phair, Belle and Sebastian, Feist, and Suzanne Vega. Her biggest achievements to date have been playing Fuji Rock in 2009, touring with members of Deerhoof, writing and singing for commercials and the big screen, releasing several albums, and opening onstage for her idol, Liz Phair.
Kate is a mom and preschool teacher as well as a songwriter and works hard to keep the passion for creating and performing alive in order to be an
inspiration for her kids.
https://katesikora.com
https://www.facebook.com/katesikoramusic
https://www.instagram.com/k8sikora
https://katesikora.bandcamp.com/album/the-days-we-hold-on-to
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Paige Baldwin Ando
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Jordana Matsuda
https://instagram.com/jordanaillustration
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Originally from London, Jo Payne has spent the last ten years living on the North Devon Coast, by way of Surrey and Kent. A self-taught artist, Jo creates atmospheric and elemental sea and sky paintings that are riveting in their scope and emotional impact. Driven and inspired by her coastal surroundings, Jo's paintings explore the endless changing flow of the natural elements present in her daily life. With her intuitive, free style of painting, Jo often has several works on the go at once, and approaches each one as the feeling draws her.
https://www.seapainterstudio.com
https://www.instagram.com/seapainter_jo
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Paige Baldwin Ando
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Since moving to Japan from India in 2007, Tenie Sangma has made Tokyo her home. Using her vast array of skills in the field of Speech and Drama, Tenie helps young people develop confidence and build skills in communication, and in expressing their creativity. Making self-expression accessible to everyone, no matter their background or skill level, is central to her mission.
https://www.learningcircle.jp
https://instagram.com/thelearningcirclejapan
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Paige Baldwin Ando
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Jordana Matsuda
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Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Selin Balci has lived in the United States since 2003. There, she's blazed her own trail in the field of bio-art, a new direction in contemporary art that utilizes living organisms. Having been a researcher of microscopic pathogens in forests before beginning her art career, Selin's studies questioned how microorganisms exist, interact, and impact our environment. Merging those questions with her art practice, her current projects use scientific materials and biological mediums such as mold spores to make the invisible micro-organisms around us visible, and allow us to see the micro-world physically. In her far-reaching and visually stunning pieces, mold spores draw an abstract picture as they transform into a living paint agent. Selin's work invites viewers to reconsider their relationship with the natural world, particularly the microscopic organisms that share our environment and our lives.
https://selinbalci.com
https://www.instagram.com/microbialgrowth
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In this episode Paige and Jordana talk about the themes that came up over season 2, what resonated with them, and what they are both working on at the moment.
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Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
https://instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
Jordana Matsuda
https://www.jordana-matsuda.com
https://www.instagram.com/jordanaillustration
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As a worldschooler, a chef, and a yoga instructor, Karen Ricks weaves learning into everything she does. Having lived in over a dozen countries on four continents as she educates, cooks, and soaks up her own learning, Karen's work intertwines the cultures she comes into contact with and honors their roots and their variety. Play takes a prominent role in all she does, bringing the joy that's inherent in learning to the very forefront of all she does.
Learn more about Karen:
https://ourkitchenclassroom.com
https://www.instagram.com/karenm.ricks
Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
Jordana Matsuda
https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
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Hailing from Canberra, Australia, Aims Watts has lived in six different countries and is about to make Fiji the next! Her most long-lasting home outside Australia has been Japan, where she started Indy Bindy Fabrics, featuring unique fabrics lovingly made by extraordinary artisans throughout Japan. Aims's love of fabrics and sewing drives her creative work, and people seek her out for her help in crafting pieces they truly love. For Aims, it comes down to three things: expressing who she is through the clothing she creates, supporting indie artists who create the fabrics in her shop, and sparking the creativity of other sewists through her signature membership, The Sewciety.
Want to join Aims in her Sewciety? Click HERE to join her membership.
https://www.indybindy.com.au
https://www.instagram.com/indybindyfabrics/?hl=en
Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
Jordana Matsuda
https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
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Originally from the UK, Caroline Storie now makes her home on the stunningly beautiful Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. After years of working with stitching on paper, Caroline is currently in the midst of a shift where she's exploring other creative pulls. Her current interest is in expressing feelings and experiences through a variety of shapes--deconstructing images and then stitching them together again to reimagine them. Caroline is also a creativity coach, and brings her characteristic vivaciousness and verve to her creative community, both online and off.
Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
Jordana Matsuda
https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
https://www.jordana-matsuda.com
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Originally from New Zealand, Jayne Nakata is the award-winning host of the #1 podcast for international women living in Japan: Transformations with Jayne. She's also the co-host of the Japan and NZ business podcast, Jandals in Japan. In 2021, Jayne started PodLaunch with Jayne, which helps podcasters around the world to launch and run their own show. Jayne’s PodLaunch Family is a growing network of podcasts that focus on community and empowering women.
Find out more about Jayne here:
https://www.jaynenakata.com/
https://www.instagram.com/transformationswithjayne
Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
Jordana Matsuda
https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
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From her home near Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States, Elle C. Wolfe ushers her interior design clients into environments that reflect who they really are. Working with mood boards to guide the experience, she leads people from a home environment they might not really like, to one that evokes positive feelings for them--while ignoring what's trendy or trite.
Find out more about Elle here:
https://www.instagram.com/atlanta_interior_designer/
https://ellecwolfe.com/
Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative/
Jordana Matsuda
https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
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From Scotland to England to France to Japan, Annie Nakahara-Knight has brought her love of music-making along with her every step of the way. Passionate about sharing music with everyone, regardless of their background or training, Annie has led various groups and classes in strengthening connection through making music. As a teacher of Music Together classes for young families and the leader of MotherSong, a Tokyo-based group for women to sing together, Annie uses her skills to bring forth the vocal creativity of all the people she works with.
Find out more about Annie here:
http://www.albamusictogether.com
https://www.facebook.com/tokyomothersong
https://instagram.com/mothersongjapan
Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
Jordana Matsuda
https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
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Having made her home in 8 different countries over the course of her life, Helena Svendsen's work explores the nature of a different form of home: the body of a woman, specifically as it takes on the role of mother.
Through her own experience becoming a mother, Helena's attention fell to the ways motherhood changes us on an alchemical level, as well as the ways motherhood is overlooked, undervalued, and misinterpreted. Her first installation, called "Altar To My First Home" created a sacred space for the mother archetype and triggered deep emotions in those who attended, evoking primal memories of feminine power and belonging.
Reconnecting with herself as a woman and an artist after becoming a mother, Helena has created for us all a portal into that same kind of remembering, and that same source of strength.
https://www.instagram.com/bollegirl/?hl=en
Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
Jordana Matsuda
https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
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Divya Kato is a British-Indian artist and educator who has been working in Japan for over seventeen years and drawing since receiving her first pack of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle crayons.
From an art scholarship to The Royal Masonic School, to a Fine Art degree that led her to Tokyo where she set up her own atelier and drawing school, art has been the golden thread running through her life.
Divya's work in art education spans preschools to universities, corporations to cross-cultural collaborations such as The Big Draw Japan. Her work as an artist exists in collections both in Japan and abroad.
She draws inspiration from the Reggio Emilia approach to childhood education and the key principles of teachers as learners, the hundred languages of children, the classroom as a third teacher and involving the local community.
Divya loves large-scale, collaborative art projects. Creating North Peak's first mural was the highlight of her summer and she hopes it'll be the first of many!
During the pandemic, she became a mother of two to Ollie and Georgie: arguably her best creations to date.
Find out more here:
Divya Marie Kato
https://www.divyamariekato.com/
https://www.instagram.com/divyamariekato/?hl=en
Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.wholeselfcreative.com
https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
Jordana Matsuda
https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration
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After having grown up in the UK, Charlotte Hamilton studied and practiced a wide array of visual arts in Mallorca, Spain. She's since made her home in Ontario, Canada for the past 23 years, where she's built a global art community that connects her with others through creating a variety of visual work. Through her shared daily visual practices, Charlotte learns to see things more quickly, try new things, and connect with people through the entire process.
Find out more about Charlotte here
https://www.blueshineart.com
https://www.instagram.com/blueshineart
https://www.youtube.com/@blueshineart/videos
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueshineArt
Paige Baldwin Ando
https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative
Jordana Matsuda
https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration/
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