Love Letters from Rain
Using indigo and micronized silver, multidisciplinary artist Miya Ando crafts odes to the ephemerality of natural phenomena.
Sarah Fleming
Sarah Fleming is a Tricycle senior editor.
Mediums and Mountain Ascetics
Following her mother’s death, a writer turns to Japan’s spiritual traditions to find healing and connection.
Into the Ordinary
Adapting a dying tradition, Hasui Kawase (1883–1957) captured day-to-day life during Japan’s rapid modernization.
Inside Every Ocean Hughes’s ‘One Big Bag’
The artist and death doula on queer death, end-of-life rituals, and how to not be afraid
Don’t-Know Mind
Buddhist chaplain Sharon Lukert discusses navigating the bardo of cognitive decline.
Portraits of Paradox
Chinese artist Xie Nanxing paints an escape from painting.
Shiro Tsujimura’s Exploded Forms
Contemporary ceramist Shiro Tsujimura combines traditional Japanese styles of pottery with avant-garde sensibilities, aspiring to bring out the mu of each vessel he creates.
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