In a recent interview, Rikka Ono shared her thoughts on her collaboration with Nozomi Ishihara:
They collected oral histories from elderly residents living on both banks: tales of love letters carried by paper boats, of merchants who traded secrets instead of silk, of children who sang lullabies to the river’s flow. Rikka turned each story into a thin, silver filament, weaving them together into a translucent mesh that stretched across the river’s width. Nozomi wrote a companion booklet, each page a fragment of those collected memories, paired with a QR code that, when scanned, played an ambient soundscape of water, laughter, and distant bells. Rikka Ono Nozomi Ishihara
Rikka watched a young boy pause before a lantern etched with Orion, his eyes widening as the star‑pattern seemed to pulse. Nozomi read his silent wonder, and the boy whispered, “It’s like the sky is listening to me.” The lanterns, the verses, and the shared silence created a moment where the boundaries between art, poetry, and life dissolved. In a recent interview, Rikka Ono shared her