Our artist, Kei, welcomes guests to join her and take a seat while she envelops them in her creative bubble. After a brief meet and greet, she takes each guest name and breaks them down into its syllables and interpret them, not just translate them, into Japanese, based on their personality.

 

She does this by using the Kanji alphabet, one of four Japanese alphabets, which consists of more than 10,000 characters. With each Kanji symbol she chooses, each represents an idea or concept beyond its phonetic pronunciation. Through this, she is able to create a name that reflects each guest's personality.

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She then paints their interpreted name into a beautiful, bespoke work of art by using beautiful colors and a unique design for each guest. In this way, no two names and no two paintings are alike. Each individually crafted artwork is completely unique, rendering every piece a one of kind in the entire world.

 

The magic in this is that it is an artistic snapshot of who each guest is at that specific time and place. Should we see happen to meet a guest at another time and venue, they may have grown or changed and developed, as well as do. Life is, after all, always in flux. It is up to the guest at that point to discover what new interpretation Kei may have, or whether they would like to keep their already selected name, worked into a new work of art.