All the images on this page are piled on top of each other and are draggable, and to see them visually you must move them around. The image on top, covering all others, is a photo of a seated stone angel blowing a kiss at you with its legs flirtily crossed. Full alt text below.



Things to do at Yone House 🏠:

  • sift through these images
  • submit to the color archive
  • read lists
  • learn about me
  • learn about the making of this site
  • wait for me to make a portfolio page...
Gif of my brain MRI, showing sequential slices of the inside of my head in profile, looking left. Apparently it looks normal to doctors, what is abnormal is the electrical activity inside it!
Blurry photograph of red tulips made of flat wood sitting on artificial turf in front of a wall covered in white vinyl siding. Extended notes: this was taken in Pittsburgh at The Mattress Factory in 2024, and is part of Greer Lankton's installation titled It's All About ME, Not You. Seeing Greer Lankton's work at the Mattress Factory in 2019 was a big part of my gender journey. I was like why am I crying so hard. Turns out I was crying so hard because I am trans. l o l.
Scan of a full-spread zine page titled Thank You smiley face emoticon. It contains a framed very low quality black and white photograph printed on blue paper of me sipping a cup of coffee in a Zoom call frame, and in the top left corner of the photo is the outline of a doll in black ink, with an embroidered red star surrounding it. This photo is stitched onto the paper with brown embroidery thread, and above and below the photo are red and green floral designs. Extended notes: The floral designs come from a wooden kokeshi doll my Obaba brought from Japan, which is the doll highlighted in the photograph. The zine is titled My Zoom Companion, and it is about that doll always being in the background of my Zoom calls because it brings me comfort. The photo is such low quality because I printed it on blue cardstock with my laser printer, and the toner kind of flaked off when I folded it into this page.
Crease pattern of an origami crane, which is a square with lots of blue and red lines criss-crossing. Its background is transparent, so the lines can be superimposed on other images.
Photo of the kitchen window at my old home on Iseminger Street in South Philadelphia. Extended notes: This was taken in the morning, and warm light glows through the window, framed on the top with a squiggly piece of wood. There are plants in the window that are backlit, and you can see a bit of the kitchen sink full of dishes below them.
Cut-out piece of yellow post-it paper, labeled in pen with my Ojiji's shaky all-caps handwriting. It reads Chitose, Japan. 1960. Where we lived when first married.
Photo of a wall mural featuring an unmade bed in a red room, with a circular painting of a blooming tree branch above it and a red staircase to its left, turning into nowhere. Extended notes: this was in a bedroom of my parents' house, but they covered it shortly after they bought the house in 1995. That bedroom later became my childhood bedroom, and the mural is still hidden beneath its paint. My thumb is visible in the corner because I was holding the print when I took the picture of it.
Photo of a seated stone angel blowing a kiss at you with its legs flirtily crossed. Two small origami cranes sit beside it. It is the top layer of the piled photos on this homepage, and must be dragged to reveal the others, unless you are using this alt text. Extended notes: this cherub is found on top of a glass case in my grandparents' house, which contains one of two very fancy Japanese dolls my Obaba brought from Japan to New Jersey in a suitcase in 1969.