Kimieye my middle name comes to me from my Japanese grandmother. When I was choosing a name for my business I wanted something that spoke to my mixed heritage but was also uniquely mine.
A native of Salem, Ma (The Witch City); I spent my late teens and early twenties on my own haunting the decaying mansions & student ghettos of Allston with horror punks and burlesque girls.
After graduating from The Massachusetts College Of Art and Design with a Degree focusing on traditional handmade stop motion, I began working with the Bad Ass Kids of Boston and Cambridge. Arming them with both Crafts and Cameras I also tried to Socratically hone their minds and have facilitated workshops on everything from a boys knitting group to a critical analysis of gender and racial tensions in slasher films.
I am currently juggling various projects in Brighton, MA with my live in musician, a hateful yellow cat & a staggering amount of library books both overdue and otherwise.
Primarily a Cut Paper Artist I make my work by hand drawing out every unique illustration on black paper and cutting them out with an exact o blade