if you’re in the business of missery and wanna take it slow (or high??) on a thursday night, come to @matchapassport and join our #Paramore Night at a Matcha Bar!!!!
free to joinnnn, its gonna be a low key, no pressure night, just come hang with me and my weather 🌝😉
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ARIFURERU / 凡 / Mundanity
Exhibiting the hidden beauty of everyday life through the perspective of 9 international creative teams from Japan and Indonesia.
16-17 May 2026
10:00 - 19:00
FREE to enter
Urasando Garden 2F
4 Chome-15-2 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001 (address link in bio)
RUMPUN / 群 / ルンプン
This project began when Chihiro connected Karina and me while she was exploring artist communities for her thesis. At the same time, I wanted to continue researching art and reflection, simply to keep writing and thinking, even imperfectly.
Inspired by Sen / 遷移 / Transition, we created a visual exhibition to give space to talented artists around us who rarely have opportunities to show their work. With Steve’s support, we gathered 50 artists and held the exhibition in Japan in March 2025.
In many ways, it also reconnects to an older dream, Kreasie Hub (2019), a grassroots idea Alyssa, Selma, and I once started. Maybe this project became its new form.
After several rejections and revisions, the research was finally accepted and presented at the Serviceology Conference 2026 in Chiba.
Grateful to Chihiro, ITOMA members, my co-authors, volunteers, Steve of Koco Garden and the 50 artists who made this possible.
The writing may not be perfect, but the intention was simply to put the work out there first.
More details on Medium link in bio!!
I guess a recent pics + those 2016 throwback pics. Apparently i got a very limited pics of myself of 2016 since I was barely there. Just struggling the hell out of a language that I had to learn from scratch while juggling learning other entrance exams materials in where i don't even understand them in my own language.
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Can't really say I made it in life but 2016 Dee made it to the place he wanted back then. Graduated from the place I failed to get in 10 years ago and not only that,!but proudly active in being around the lab and community. Not to be petty, but also making it leagues above my high school bullies in they are just nowhere to be found these days. In which they be pulling some ass move in reaching out of nowhere only to ask for tips and tricks to come to Japan, whether for trips or moving. I'd say the fuck if i care. So I guess here's to 2016 Dee, to you who took 10-12 hours on studying non-stop restless for 1.5 years. To you who cry to your mom at 4am not knowing your self-worth due to failing entrance exams. To you who struggled fighting with being depressed, alone in the country so far from home. This is to Dee of 2016, thank you for bearing with yourself so far..
Here's to end 2025. The year where i pushed myself towards the thing i wished for and here it is to 2026, the year for me in I will remind myself to take a rest and slow down.
Continuing of the dining table on substack, as I kinda miss the brief and small convos I have with my dad. I grew up closer to my mom, and I'm starting a whole series of dining tables, but I somehow overlooked of what I have seen during I grew up…. my dad on out dining table.
And here's a Rusty Williams song as he is the man who took me around the world, or at least made it possible for me to be across the world
Go over through the new substack article!
A different kind of shallow pool I would love to jump in head first without even a rush in my head. I honestly miss the imperfection, I miss the no-Omotenashi, straightforward manners (which I'm struggling to learn of being a massive Javanese in a Japanese culture). Finding ways to get back there and take my chances.
"Could've gotten the same rush from any lover's touch. Why get used to something new"
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When you listen to pool by paramore hundreds of times since it's released back in 2016, everything is gonna look like pool by paramore.
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A friend encouraged me to put some of my fun collaging at the kitchen on a deck of card here as well so here it is i guess
"I love you Tokyo. I hate you Tokyo."
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Has been feeling like Seoul by RM lately. How I have always have the urge to use all my savings and jump to another country, experience everything anew, meet new friends and family. How i constantly feel that i'm running in place not knowing how to step out of it. How I feel this city has held everything back to what could've been. YET, the very same city with its beautiful skylines and citylights has been the very one that launched me to where I am right now. The very city that I grew up with in some sense (I've been in Tokyo way longer than I has in Jakarta). How it started from a ¥108 daiso plate to a nice fancy coffee every morning. Its a constant fight everyday just to define what it is to what I want, of where i want to be and of defining what is "home".
Okay, it's been a while since i updated a post properly but it's been crazy and it's already the middle of April. Crazy adjustments is just part of entering this new life i guess, but life moves so fast it's just episodes of one adjustment towards another i constantly ask when life's gonna settle down slower.
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But!! It has been utterly fun also. Projects were done like how we were in high school, tho scale it a little bit higher with newer people. Had my body had not taken its toll on me, and had my day job been a tiny bit more flexible, the silly, fun art project numbers might be a little bit higher. Alyssa having her first workshop in Shimokita! A big milestone to celebrate definitely!
--- There are still tons of things we have in mind but as a friend suggested, grab a rest Dee and get back to it later in June... but again, what else is new, skipping meals for the things that i love has been the stuffs i do since high school too
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Okayy, what even is this random yapping
