Raised in Japan and now based in Canada, Yuki's practice is shaped by Japanese cultural traditions and everyday forms of care.

Her practice began with kimono and the art of dressing — not as performance, but as a way of living shaped by Japanese cultural tradition. While studying in Kyoto, these sensibilities became part of daily life itself: the way a city could be arranged with intention, the way beauty could exist quietly in ordinary moments. Living abroad, the contrast sharpened what she had always known. Tea ceremony, ikebana, herbal practice, mending, and participatory art — each became a way of carrying and deepening that same sensibility in a different context. Not as nostalgia, but as a living practice.

For a long time, these practices seemed separate. It was only through working more deeply with each of them that a shared root became visible — an attention toward relationship, atmosphere, and the subtle exchanges that exist between people, objects, and space.

Rather than focusing on objects themselves, the work explores how value changes through perception, context, care, and relationship. A repaired garment, a bowl of tea, wild herbs, or the arrangement of a space — each becomes a way of reconsidering what already exists. 

She does not offer answers or finished forms. What she offers is a way of seeing — the possibility that value, meaning, and connection are not fixed, but continuously shaped through relationship, attention, and the choice to look again.