At a mollusc pace, Hitoko is feeling their way home into their body towards sensing safety and belonging in the world. In 2018, they experienced being held in beloved community at their first Jam, where an ocean of grief flowed from their well and cleared spaciousness for their desired growth. They are a queer, interdisciplinary artist, curator, community arts organizer and facilitator. They believe in storytelling and play as tools for transformation. Hitoko has created process-based community arts programming for newcomers and refugees to explore personal narratives of migration and healing through visual and embodied languages, as a collective practice for community building and place making through storytelling, play, craft, exhibitions and public presentation. They are a co-founder and organizer for the Art Installers Alliance of Ontario for sectoral change to empower precariously employed contracted cultural workers. Hitoko is a life-learner of Japanese heritage textile crafts of indigo dyeing and shifu weaving of bast fibres as a cultural and relational practice to plant kin, ancestral knowledge, and spirit, through a queer ecology lens. Their artistic work has been commissioned and exhibited in various galleries and public events across Canada and the USA. She is the recipient of multiple grants and awards. They have participated in national and international artist residencies in Japan, USA, and across Canada.
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