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October 2023
Anu is my most recent short story published on my blog. It started to pour through into my awareness as I had listened to some healing tribal chanting music. This story asks us to practice putting our judgments aside and witness people from a more neutral lens. When we practice doing this, we are exercising our 3rd eye, the one that is not trapped on the polarity seesaw of ‘right’ or ‘wrong,’ and ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ Making this shift within ourselves IS a healing for all. Anu illustrates this profoundly.
2022-2023
“Shimaguni” is my latest watercolor collection. It’s made of two Japanese words: shima, “island” and guni, “nation.” Japan and Hawaii are two islands that have both had a profound influence on me and which I have a great affinity for. Playfully dressed like ukiyoe Japanese woodblock print art, these paintings dance in two cultures and hold a joy and sense of appreciation that anyone can be a part of.
February 2021-ongoing
“EQ and Energy” is a blog series that explores the deepening emotional intelligence that we are experiencing currently on the planet. In addition to feeling energy in motion, can we really learn to “read” it? I have, and I share this amazing, magical journey little by little in each post. Take a dive with me into the ABCs of Energy and EQ!
2020
“Colors of Aloha” is my first watercolor collection. The colors of plants and florals in Hawaii can make your heart skip a beat and whisper things that hug you and heal you. Very magical things happened from start to finish as I met each flower and expressed each meeting with water and pigment.
December 31, 2020
“A Wise Man’s Tale” is a short story resembling a parable that came through this December as I felt guided to match the stillness of a tree while in meditation. There are many words that point to the same idea: sit very still and don’t grasp at anything or fall into thinking. Let yourself just be. When you sink into stillness, what do you find?
“A Wise Man’s Tale” is featured in my blog here
2018-2020
“ROAMoChan” is what I call my travel adventure series of writings and illustrations. Although you could argue that most of the adventure is really happening inside after reading any of my ROAMoChan blog posts. Just go to my blog page and click on ROAMoChan category in the side bar. Below is a video from the watercolor sketchbook I take on all my trips.
March 8, 2020
Happy International Women’s Day! Check out “Rise,” a 10 frame story empathizing with the struggle many women share to empower themselves.
“Rise” can be found on my Instagram account here
May 22, 2019
Who is breathwork for? Like cars, handbags, dancing, and karaoke, breathwork is simply a tool that can help influence your mental, emotional, and physical state. After reading about the effects that yawning has on our bodily systems, I became more interested in the idea of conscious breathwork. That’s when I stumbled upon the 4,7,8 technique and then felt inspired to illustrate it.
This artwork was featured in my blog post titled, “The Mind’s Home.”
December 2018
“Boris the Boar at New Years” is a set of 16 New Years-themed stickers for the LINE app available to LINE users in Japan only starting from December 27th as part of a year end promotion. Boris was born on an airplane! Read more about his arrival into this world here.
December 2018
If souls could talk, what would they say? The Gift Exchange is the first book of this visual narrative series now available on Amazon Kindle. It follows the experience of Suki, a girl whose inner gift has matured. But what a bizarre gift it is! How can she make any sense of it? Maybe some people’s gifts just aren’t very useful after all.
Initially written to inspire Mo-Chan’s younger sister, this highly meaningful story carries a very clear message for all wandering souls still in possession of unrealized gifts.
Click here to view The Gift Exchange
Click here to read the special and sudden unfolding of this story.
November 2018
Click here to view Mindful Mermaid
Click here to read about the ugly dog that inspired Omm the statue.
July 2018
Memories of home get stored as fragments in the mind’s visual compartments. Here I’ve illustrated some of my own and paired them with words that magically appear like guidance as I paint.
May 2018
Whether we acknowledge the philosopher in us or not, we all have personal truths and philosophies that guide us in life. When we set out to do anything, there are unspoken messages that ooze out from our actions and interactions with others. These are some of Mo-Chan’s (working) philosophies playfully illustrated! View on my Instagram account here, or go to my blog and click on the category, “Philosophy on Life.”
