Beyond What I Could Imagine
29. September. 2026
Where Our Feelings Take Shape
At the beginning of summer, a friend commissioned me to create flowers for her wedding.
Something about this commission felt a little different from my usual work, and I wanted to keep a record of the experience.
As I listened to what she envisioned, what she was feeling, and what she was looking for, I began planting the seeds of those images within myself, paying close attention to the feeling as it grew and took shape.
She is someone who lives true to her own heart, and as she followed that inner voice, her vision evolved several times from what she had first imagined.
Each time, she honestly shared what she was feeling in that moment.
Strangely, as the person creating the flowers, I felt no sense of urgency or anxiety at all.
“I wonder what will come next?”
I found myself trusting the flow itself, simply watching it unfold like a film whose scenes were constantly changing.
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One day, she made a special trip to my studio and, at first sight, knew exactly which design she wanted.
It was a flower I had created two years earlier, as a gift to myself.
Two years later, something I had made purely for myself was now finding its way into someone else’s heart.
I was overwhelmed with joy at seeing how far that connection could reach.
As she held the flower in her hands, she said,
“This is it! Nothing else will do!”
In that moment, our joy didn’t simply overlap. It multiplied, becoming something far greater than either of us could have created alone.
I got goosebumps.
And then came the making.
One flower after another began to take shape.
“Ah, they’re blossoming more and more.”
With every flower that came to life, I felt more and more fulfilled myself.
The largest ranunculus I had ever made.
As I layered felt upon felt, an energy began to overflow from its centre, carrying an extraordinary sense of strength and vitality.
Happiness and joy seemed to rise from the very heart of the flower, bursting forth like a fountain.
It’s alive!
Its presence was so powerful that even I was overwhelmed by it.
Throughout the process, I sent her photographs again and again, listening to her feelings and impressions each time as we continued to shape the work together.
Even the feelings I couldn’t quite contain within myself, I shared with her just as they were.
No matter how small a commission may be, I never cut corners.
I create each piece with that person in my heart, pouring into it the greatest energy I can offer in that moment.
That has always been true.
And yet, this time, something different emerged.
This wasn’t something created by me alone, simply thinking of her as I worked.
We brought our own feelings and sensibilities to the process, drawing out the beauty in each other and giving form to something together.
It was, in essence, a collaboration.
Interestingly, she later told me that she had felt exactly the same way.
This feeling.
In fact, it was something I had first experienced so powerfully through the creative process of Tokyo Fashionista Gala.
“This is the kind of creative process I want to explore more deeply.”
To move beyond creating alone, with someone else in mind, and instead allow what lives within each of us to resonate with the other.
To let something entirely new emerge from that connection. Something we had never seen before. Something neither of us could have imagined on our own.
I think this is the kind of creation that truly makes me tremble with excitement.
What I received this time was a single wedding commission.
But the joy I experienced, and the feeling I discovered through this creative journey, were so much greater than that.
It became an irreplaceable experience, one I will carry with me.
Thank you, truly, for allowing me to experience this kind of creation with you. ♡
And may these flowers go on to weave new stories throughout the chapters of her life yet to come.