About Miyuki Baker
Miyuki is a resident of the place where many circles overlap. They’re a queer, multi-racial/lingual artist, activist & academic passionate about using common or discarded objects, stories, zines, and performance in public spaces to make accessible art. Their research examines how we practice “hope” and meaning through space, architecture and the environment. They’re currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at UC Berkeley.
After graduating from Swarthmore College in 2012, where they were involved in queer Asian activism and making art, they received the Watson Fellowship to travel the world in search of queer artists and activists and made 8 zines highlighting what they learned under their publishing house Queer Scribe Productions. From 2014-2015 she lived in Ecuador and traveled by bicycle from Ecuador to Colombia cataloging traditional textiles, music and food. After returning, they built and lived in a mobile tiny house for a year (until selling it in May 2016).
Hey Miyuki!
love this – so poetically put as well 🙂
The truth of these secrets rings like little bells in late December. I especially liked the laptop one.
Silent walks in the forest
Petrichor
Anticipating the day you’ll reunite with your lover
Thanks MJ and Marcus! Marcus, I think that little bells ringing in late December is another one 😉 Sandra, those are amazing ‘secrets’… I had to look up what petrichor was. For the reference of others who don’t know the word either:
pet·ri·chor
ˈpeˌtrīkôr/
noun
1.
a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.
“other than the petrichor emanating from the rapidly drying grass, there was not a trace of evidence that it had rained at all”
xx
Love it! I also enjoy listening to people make music sans the overproduction that you find so pervasive in the music industry today, i.e. a guitar and two people in harmony, nothing else, shot and thrown onto YouTube.
And baked goods. Got any good vegan recipes for me to try? 🙂
MMmmmhh! Yes! A capella too is so underrated (well, except for at Swat) but yeah guitar + two people in harmony is great huh? Remember that night we spent in Seoul at Acousticholic? Such a fun night. I loved how we just started dancing swing!
Hmm I’ll think of some recipes! Despite my last name, I’m quite a horrible baker! lol