Yasumi Toyoda

A record of my thoughts, inspirations, experiments, creations, adventures, observations and noticings…

"Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story."

—Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

“That if there is a female gaze, it is not an attribute of any art made by women, but something that attempts to express what it means to live in a female body-whatever form it might take”

—Lauren Elkin (Art Monsters)

“Imagination = nostalgia for the past, the absent; it’s the solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality”

—Valeris Luiselli (Sidewalks)