1. ARTIST STATEMENT
2. THE FICKLE HUMAN RADIO
3. WORKSHOPS
4. ESSAYS
5. FILMOGRAPHY
6. SUBSTACK
7. CLIENT WORK
RADIO SHOW CONCEPT
the fickle human radio is a radio show structured as social practice. Each dispatch features a conversation with guests who refuse to stay in one category — artists who research, writers who facilitate, thinkers who weave between disciplines. Each episode is less about extracting expertise and more about creating space for minds that move.
Past Dispatches
Our first dispatch features Minami, the founder of Featherheart Books. Established in October 2025, Featherheart Books is an independent English-language online and pop up bookshop based in Tokyo. They host reading parties called “DON’T @ ME, PAGE ME” and often collaborate with local creatives on community events.
The conversation moves from the story behind Featherheart’s launch, the value of reading as community practice, reading as a social signifier/as aesthetic practice/as performance, and so much more.
You can listen/watch the conversation on Soundcloud or Youtube.
Our second dispatch features Sara Kimura, a storyteller, researcher and student I met on a pilgrimage in Mount Koya. Sara is the founder of AONAMI, a living folklore atelier and family-run sanctuary nestled in a traditional Japanese folk house. Currently in the making and set to open in Spring 2027, AONAMI will be a space for intimate retreats and a vibrant community space, rooted in circularity and the preservation of local memory.
Our conversation unravelled as if a story would, moving from Sara’s upbringing and grounding in the Waldorf school, to the ways in which oral storytelling can serve as a transcendental bridge to our shared humanity.
You can listen/watch the conversation on Soundcloud or Youtube.
Our third episode features Nadina. Nadina is an artist and creative, community organiser and a jawdroppingly eloquent wordsmith. She’s also one of the founding members of NAMNAM Space, which is a queer, anarchist community space currently located in Koenji.
This was another delicious, meandering conversation about the difference between art and creativity, the ephemeral qualities of art, the ways in which non-tangible modalities like community and performance can fucntion as an artistic medium, and so much more. We also touch on Nadina’s multifaceted background, from running Lolita fashion meetups in the UK, organizign a queer anarchist community space in Tokyo, writing, filmmaking...the list is endless!
You can listen/watch the conversation on Soundcloud or Youtube.
Episode four features Megumi Koiwai, a friend and fellow writer, as well as a multi-hyphenate creative producer and translator. She’s also the co-organizer of The Offline School, a series of device-free gatherings for collective learning.
We chatted about the vulnerabity that comes with claiming the “writer” label - as is the case with any other art form - Megumi’s journey from corporate life to a multi-hyphenated freelancer and creative worker, her relationship with the Substack economy, and writing as an “observational” art form.
You can listen/watch the conversation on Soundcloud or Youtube.
Episode five features Ai Kinoshita, a tattoo artist, illustrator and founder of the Hiroshima-based community center, Entrance Onomichi. We’ve been connected via social media for years, and finally consecrated our friendship IRL, right on air.
Ai shared her journey to becoming an artist, the difference between “art/アート” and “art/美術” in the Japanese language, and the importance of “spaciousness/余白” within an artist’s life.
This episode is only available in Japanese.
You can listen/watch the conversation on Soundcloud or Youtube.
Episode six features Hiroko Kikuchi, an interdisciplinary artist born and based in Tokyo. Hiroko and I met in late 2025, at EASTEAST_, where she was exhibiting her experiential art pieces. I was immediately mesmesrized by the tender themes embedded in her pieces, and have been inspired to also explore instructional art within my own practice.
Hiroko shares her journey to becoming an artist in New York City, fluxus and avant garde art, art as sociopolitical intervention, how a mental health crisis in her 50s pushed her to open up her pracitce in new ways, and the challenges of being a contemporary artist in Japan.
You can listen/watch the conversation on Soundcloud or Youtube.
Episode seven’s guests are Eminata, Cher1tide and Leo Herron, three independent singer-songwriters. The two hour special episode features the show’s first-ever live performances and a short interview with each artist.
This one meant so much to me. Each of these artists are people I admire deeply and it was so special to be able to share their music in such an intimate way.
You can listen/watch the conversation on Soundcloud or Youtube.