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🙋🏻‍♀️Mixed Nikkei American artist 💌Lacelit Studio + Stationery Shop ✏️Illustration ✂️Mixed Media Collage ☁️Creative Workshops | lacelit.com
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Sometimes, you just have to make the leap to see what else is out there. lacelit.com #illustration #digitalillustration #makingart

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I've been experimenting with creative writing in short-story form, and have a 7-paragraph micro-story for you: 📓 "Brave Enough to Touch the Sky", a micro-story about hope amidst bleakness. open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...

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#februllage2025: CROWN // I walk where crowns touch sky and sunbeams intersect with frost, glistening like starlight at midday. It doesn’t feel right to hurry past. My steps still to behold the majesty of trees for a reverent moment captured in frame before lenses freeze over. ✂️#lacelitpaperlings

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#februllage2025: DRAWING // A handmade gift for Kouno-san (one of my mom’s caregivers). We’ve been such a team during my time here in Japan. I learned she loved cats, and has a tabby named Boss, so I assembled this mixed media collage portrait for her in secret. 😉💛 #lacelitpaperlings #collage

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#februllage2025: LOST // When things become overwhelming, the idea of traipsing off somewhere to get lost- in thought, a book, the woods- tugs at the edges of long days, and whispers my imagination awake. ✨ 🔗 lacelit.com #lacelit kimberlykuniko.substack.com #taylorpestellianchapters ✂️ #collage

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Having white peach as my favorite fruit’s bittersweet b/c it’s not common in CA. It’s rarity makes every encounter a delightful reunion! Sitting in Acts Cafe, I savored my white peace float. Served in a beaker, it reminded me of my mom, 1st gen college-goer+biochem major. #taylorpestellianchapters

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haiku: iced-over clover withdraws then claws its way up persistence cracks through We may not see the way forward, but I believe there is one. Like clover pushing up thru snow refusing to stay frozen or dormant- it will change the entire landscape. . 🍉 Sunbird Fundraiser for UNRWA: lacelit.com/shop

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Today: 82nd Day of Remembrance of Exec. Order 9066 that incarcerated 120,000 people of Japanese descent + displaced several thousand more. Words of friend Alyson Iwamoto, “Here’s to intergenerational healing through sharing, organizing, & art.” 📌My family story: instagram.com/p/DGQ7FW7hdDy #collage

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#februllage2025: POLAROID Just as I pressed down on the shutter, a gust of icy wind rose, sending strands of my hair fluttering across the lens to frame a sliver of the scene. An unexpected happening that feels a bit like magic- one I couldn’t have achieved if I tried. ps #lacelitpaperlings #collage

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#febbrullage2025: FREEZE Analog collage hand-cut from origami paper. Conjuring up the satisfying sound of snow and ice creaking beneath my boots in Hokkaido, Japan this winter. More of my collages: #lacelitpaperlings #lacelitjournal lacelit.com

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#februllage2025: FREEZE Snow’s fallen in flutters & flurries since landing in Hokkaido. So peaceful to watch snowflakes collect on windowsills, powder turn to snowdrifts, & icicles form on eaves. Cut from origami paper conjuring sounds of creaking ice beneath my feet. #lacelitpaperlings ✂️ #collage

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It makes me happy when unexpected, happenstance objects of everyday life seem to be from the same color palette.

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I’m a sucker for stumbling upon boxes within boxes. I love lines- seeing what they frame or divide, where they intersect or direct the eye. I love the presence of symmetry without things being the same. A balance. 😌 📕 More chapters: kimberlykuniko.substack.com. ☁️ #taylorpestellianchapters

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Ohayou from Japan where I’m helping my mom recover from surgery. 1) Surprised my mom at the hospital on discharge day, hiding in the hall for the reveal. She kept reaching for my hand as if I weren’t real + she had to check. 🥹 2) Hokkaido eggs = next level. 3) Errands! #taylorpestellianchapters

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Ch. 1: (1) Konnichiwa! (2) Haiku while waiting for a flight (3) Meeting my sister in Asahikawa: warmth amidst ice. (4) Nervous to try odango cuz it’s so iconic I’ve worried it’d be too sweet for me when I very much *want* to like it! Yokatta ne, I liked it, but I only eat one mochi at a time. 😂

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escaping to the far side of far from here Paper moths made with repurposed materials, colored pencils, and found words. More of my makings: #lacelitpaperlings #kimberlykunikopoetry #mixedmediaart #collage

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Inspiration’s a curious thing. Sometimes, bits and pieces from a variety of spaces and places tucked away for safe keeping, come flooding out in ensemble. Aspects of this friend are inspired by Sarai from Laini Taylor's “Strange the Dreamer” + video game art in GRIS. 🌱 By #lacelit #illustration

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we could climb over or through so we did (Mixed media art collage journaling: hand-cut repurposed paper, colored pencil, found words assembled from various source materials) More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings #collage #mixedmediaart #analogcollage #foundwords #poetry

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DESIGN Sneak Peek // Winter Woodland Snow Globe stickers just arrived, and I’m so happy with how they turned out. Coming to the shop soooooon. ✨ 💌 Subscribe to be the first to hear when they arrive: bit.ly/lacelit ☁️Lacelit Shop: lacelit.com/shop #illustration #design

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We Build Stories in Layers we build stories in layers we mix, mingle, one thing over another shaking things up into a better story… Read full blogpost or listen to me read aloud: kimberlykuniko.substack.com More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings #kimberlykunikopoetry #collage #mixedmediaart #poetry

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Hello, friends! I’m hosting a sticker fundraiser for the UNRWA. It’s a np org providing aide in Palestine whose work is being banned by the Isræli parliament. Stickers are $5 + ship free for US domestic or intl sticker-only orders. Share it on! lacelit.com/product-page/justice-sunbird

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Hello! I'm Kimberly Kuniko, a mixed Nikkei American illustrator, collage artist, stationery designer, and host of the Dream & Scheme Community for small business owners + Guided Creative Retreats and creative workshops. Find my work at lacelit.com + little chapters at kimberlykuniko.substack.com.

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