Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka is a Japanese-Canadian artist based in Toronto. She carries forward the beauty of environmentally sustainable traditions, to explore and assert the possibilities of their application into the future. Her approach to wearable sculpture removes the boundaries between craft, fashion and art. Hatanaka’s intentional choice of materiality supports the concepts embedded in her work which includes interconnectedness and impacts of globalization on communities integrally grounded in specific lands; collapsing time to layer ancestry and past versions of self; and the relationship between protection and courage.
