Trip to Peru

August 2015
I may look Japanese, but I've got deep cultural roots in Peru.  This summer, my husband (then fiancé) and I traveled to Peru, for him to meet my family, explore the wonders of Cusco and Macchu Picchu, eat delicious food and experience life in a place so different from our own, yet so close to home.  

Art was all around us (the foods we ate, the amazing structures in nature, paintings, murals, ceramics), and for me, there is never a vacation away from art.  I sketched here and there, was in awe of all the beauty of the natural surroundings of Cusco and was drawn to the colorful photography at the Peruvian art museum, MATE.  Even my cousin is an artist in his own right.  He's a musician and plays a Peruvian percussion instrument called the Cajon.  He gave me a mini cajon to decorate and it became a part of his artist collection of Cajonearte.  ​