Rikka Ono Nozomi Ishihara

The following spring, Rikka received an invitation to exhibit her work at the International Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Nozomi’s poems were selected for translation into ten languages and included in a global anthology on contemporary Japanese literature.

The story began on a crisp spring evening, in a small, crowded live house in Shimokitazawa. RNN was set to perform for the first time, with friends, family, and a smattering of curious onlookers filling the room. Rikka stood at the microphone, adjusting her guitar strap. Ono fiddled with the dials on her synthesizer, while Nozomi plugged in her guitar, ready to unleash a torrent of sound. Rikka Ono Nozomi Ishihara

Enchanted by the gallery, they decided to introduce themselves to the curator, a mysterious woman named Luna. With an enigmatic smile, Luna revealed that the gallery was a platform for artists to share their most intimate, personal works – pieces that they might not be ready to show to the world just yet. The following spring, Rikka received an invitation to

Nozomi smiled, her pen hovering over the page. “And I’ll write the story of those drops—how they travel from the clouds, kiss the earth, and then disappear into the roots of the world. Let’s make a piece that the city can feel, not just see.” RNN was set to perform for the first