Kimberly Kuniko | Lacelit Studio
@lacelit.bsky.social
🙋🏻♀️Mixed Nikkei American artist 💌Lacelit Studio + Stationery Shop ✏️Illustration ✂️Mixed Media Collage ☁️Creative Workshops | lacelit.com
I aspire to garden because my Grandpa Kuni knew how to tend to the needs of greenly growing things with his quiet spirit and gentle hand. For now, I’ll decorate a watering can and imagine love flowing into soil.
Portfolio | lacelit.com
Blog | kimberlykuniko.substack.com
#illustration #illustrator
Portfolio | lacelit.com
Blog | kimberlykuniko.substack.com
#illustration #illustrator
March 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I aspire to garden because my Grandpa Kuni knew how to tend to the needs of greenly growing things with his quiet spirit and gentle hand. For now, I’ll decorate a watering can and imagine love flowing into soil.
Portfolio | lacelit.com
Blog | kimberlykuniko.substack.com
#illustration #illustrator
Portfolio | lacelit.com
Blog | kimberlykuniko.substack.com
#illustration #illustrator
🍋 Join me at Takumi Alley for a refreshing, spring-filled maker’s mart at the Lemon Street Parklet in Anaheim! Find me at the Lacelit Studio + @dearmello booth in the company of 18 amazing artists + Okayama Kobo ☕️🥮😋.
Sat., 4/19
10am-3pm
Lemon Street Parklet
201 W. Center St Promenade
Anaheim, CA
Sat., 4/19
10am-3pm
Lemon Street Parklet
201 W. Center St Promenade
Anaheim, CA
March 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🍋 Join me at Takumi Alley for a refreshing, spring-filled maker’s mart at the Lemon Street Parklet in Anaheim! Find me at the Lacelit Studio + @dearmello booth in the company of 18 amazing artists + Okayama Kobo ☕️🥮😋.
Sat., 4/19
10am-3pm
Lemon Street Parklet
201 W. Center St Promenade
Anaheim, CA
Sat., 4/19
10am-3pm
Lemon Street Parklet
201 W. Center St Promenade
Anaheim, CA
Sometimes, you just have to make the leap to see what else is out there. lacelit.com
#illustration #digitalillustration #makingart
#illustration #digitalillustration #makingart
March 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Sometimes, you just have to make the leap to see what else is out there. lacelit.com
#illustration #digitalillustration #makingart
#illustration #digitalillustration #makingart
I've been experimenting with creative writing in short-story form, and have a 7-paragraph micro-story for you: 📓 "Brave Enough to Touch the Sky", a micro-story about hope amidst bleakness. open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...
March 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I've been experimenting with creative writing in short-story form, and have a 7-paragraph micro-story for you: 📓 "Brave Enough to Touch the Sky", a micro-story about hope amidst bleakness. open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...
#februllage2025: CROWN // I walk where crowns touch sky and sunbeams intersect with frost, glistening like starlight at midday. It doesn’t feel right to hurry past. My steps still to behold the majesty of trees for a reverent moment captured in frame before lenses freeze over.
✂️#lacelitpaperlings
✂️#lacelitpaperlings
March 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
#februllage2025: CROWN // I walk where crowns touch sky and sunbeams intersect with frost, glistening like starlight at midday. It doesn’t feel right to hurry past. My steps still to behold the majesty of trees for a reverent moment captured in frame before lenses freeze over.
✂️#lacelitpaperlings
✂️#lacelitpaperlings
#februllage2025: DRAWING // A handmade gift for Kouno-san (one of my mom’s caregivers). We’ve been such a team during my time here in Japan. I learned she loved cats, and has a tabby named Boss, so I assembled this mixed media collage portrait for her in secret. 😉💛
#lacelitpaperlings #collage
#lacelitpaperlings #collage
February 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
#februllage2025: DRAWING // A handmade gift for Kouno-san (one of my mom’s caregivers). We’ve been such a team during my time here in Japan. I learned she loved cats, and has a tabby named Boss, so I assembled this mixed media collage portrait for her in secret. 😉💛
#lacelitpaperlings #collage
#lacelitpaperlings #collage
#februllage2025: LOST // When things become overwhelming, the idea of traipsing off somewhere to get lost- in thought, a book, the woods- tugs at the edges of long days, and whispers my imagination awake. ✨
🔗 lacelit.com #lacelit kimberlykuniko.substack.com #taylorpestellianchapters
✂️ #collage
🔗 lacelit.com #lacelit kimberlykuniko.substack.com #taylorpestellianchapters
✂️ #collage
February 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
#februllage2025: LOST // When things become overwhelming, the idea of traipsing off somewhere to get lost- in thought, a book, the woods- tugs at the edges of long days, and whispers my imagination awake. ✨
🔗 lacelit.com #lacelit kimberlykuniko.substack.com #taylorpestellianchapters
✂️ #collage
🔗 lacelit.com #lacelit kimberlykuniko.substack.com #taylorpestellianchapters
✂️ #collage
Having white peach as my favorite fruit’s bittersweet b/c it’s not common in CA. It’s rarity makes every encounter a delightful reunion!
Sitting in Acts Cafe, I savored my white peace float. Served in a beaker, it reminded me of my mom, 1st gen college-goer+biochem major.
#taylorpestellianchapters
Sitting in Acts Cafe, I savored my white peace float. Served in a beaker, it reminded me of my mom, 1st gen college-goer+biochem major.
#taylorpestellianchapters
February 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Having white peach as my favorite fruit’s bittersweet b/c it’s not common in CA. It’s rarity makes every encounter a delightful reunion!
Sitting in Acts Cafe, I savored my white peace float. Served in a beaker, it reminded me of my mom, 1st gen college-goer+biochem major.
#taylorpestellianchapters
Sitting in Acts Cafe, I savored my white peace float. Served in a beaker, it reminded me of my mom, 1st gen college-goer+biochem major.
#taylorpestellianchapters
haiku:
iced-over clover
withdraws then claws its way up
persistence cracks through
We may not see the way forward, but I believe there is one. Like clover pushing up thru snow refusing to stay frozen or dormant- it will change the entire landscape.
.
🍉 Sunbird Fundraiser for UNRWA: lacelit.com/shop
iced-over clover
withdraws then claws its way up
persistence cracks through
We may not see the way forward, but I believe there is one. Like clover pushing up thru snow refusing to stay frozen or dormant- it will change the entire landscape.
.
🍉 Sunbird Fundraiser for UNRWA: lacelit.com/shop
February 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
haiku:
iced-over clover
withdraws then claws its way up
persistence cracks through
We may not see the way forward, but I believe there is one. Like clover pushing up thru snow refusing to stay frozen or dormant- it will change the entire landscape.
.
🍉 Sunbird Fundraiser for UNRWA: lacelit.com/shop
iced-over clover
withdraws then claws its way up
persistence cracks through
We may not see the way forward, but I believe there is one. Like clover pushing up thru snow refusing to stay frozen or dormant- it will change the entire landscape.
.
🍉 Sunbird Fundraiser for UNRWA: lacelit.com/shop
Today: 82nd Day of Remembrance of Exec. Order 9066 that incarcerated 120,000 people of Japanese descent + displaced several thousand more. Words of friend Alyson Iwamoto, “Here’s to intergenerational healing through sharing, organizing, & art.”
📌My family story: instagram.com/p/DGQ7FW7hdDy
#collage
📌My family story: instagram.com/p/DGQ7FW7hdDy
#collage
February 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Today: 82nd Day of Remembrance of Exec. Order 9066 that incarcerated 120,000 people of Japanese descent + displaced several thousand more. Words of friend Alyson Iwamoto, “Here’s to intergenerational healing through sharing, organizing, & art.”
📌My family story: instagram.com/p/DGQ7FW7hdDy
#collage
📌My family story: instagram.com/p/DGQ7FW7hdDy
#collage
#februllage2025: POLAROID
Just as I pressed down on the shutter, a gust of icy wind rose, sending strands of my hair fluttering across the lens to frame a sliver of the scene. An unexpected happening that feels a bit like magic- one I couldn’t have achieved if I tried.
ps #lacelitpaperlings #collage
Just as I pressed down on the shutter, a gust of icy wind rose, sending strands of my hair fluttering across the lens to frame a sliver of the scene. An unexpected happening that feels a bit like magic- one I couldn’t have achieved if I tried.
ps #lacelitpaperlings #collage
February 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#februllage2025: POLAROID
Just as I pressed down on the shutter, a gust of icy wind rose, sending strands of my hair fluttering across the lens to frame a sliver of the scene. An unexpected happening that feels a bit like magic- one I couldn’t have achieved if I tried.
ps #lacelitpaperlings #collage
Just as I pressed down on the shutter, a gust of icy wind rose, sending strands of my hair fluttering across the lens to frame a sliver of the scene. An unexpected happening that feels a bit like magic- one I couldn’t have achieved if I tried.
ps #lacelitpaperlings #collage
#febbrullage2025: FREEZE
Analog collage hand-cut from origami paper. Conjuring up the satisfying sound of snow and ice creaking beneath my boots in Hokkaido, Japan this winter.
More of my collages: #lacelitpaperlings #lacelitjournal lacelit.com
Analog collage hand-cut from origami paper. Conjuring up the satisfying sound of snow and ice creaking beneath my boots in Hokkaido, Japan this winter.
More of my collages: #lacelitpaperlings #lacelitjournal lacelit.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#febbrullage2025: FREEZE
Analog collage hand-cut from origami paper. Conjuring up the satisfying sound of snow and ice creaking beneath my boots in Hokkaido, Japan this winter.
More of my collages: #lacelitpaperlings #lacelitjournal lacelit.com
Analog collage hand-cut from origami paper. Conjuring up the satisfying sound of snow and ice creaking beneath my boots in Hokkaido, Japan this winter.
More of my collages: #lacelitpaperlings #lacelitjournal lacelit.com
#februllage2025: FREEZE
Snow’s fallen in flutters & flurries since landing in Hokkaido. So peaceful to watch snowflakes collect on windowsills, powder turn to snowdrifts, & icicles form on eaves. Cut from origami paper conjuring sounds of creaking ice beneath my feet. #lacelitpaperlings
✂️ #collage
Snow’s fallen in flutters & flurries since landing in Hokkaido. So peaceful to watch snowflakes collect on windowsills, powder turn to snowdrifts, & icicles form on eaves. Cut from origami paper conjuring sounds of creaking ice beneath my feet. #lacelitpaperlings
✂️ #collage
February 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#februllage2025: FREEZE
Snow’s fallen in flutters & flurries since landing in Hokkaido. So peaceful to watch snowflakes collect on windowsills, powder turn to snowdrifts, & icicles form on eaves. Cut from origami paper conjuring sounds of creaking ice beneath my feet. #lacelitpaperlings
✂️ #collage
Snow’s fallen in flutters & flurries since landing in Hokkaido. So peaceful to watch snowflakes collect on windowsills, powder turn to snowdrifts, & icicles form on eaves. Cut from origami paper conjuring sounds of creaking ice beneath my feet. #lacelitpaperlings
✂️ #collage
It makes me happy when unexpected, happenstance objects of everyday life seem to be from the same color palette.
February 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
It makes me happy when unexpected, happenstance objects of everyday life seem to be from the same color palette.
I’m a sucker for stumbling upon boxes within boxes. I love lines- seeing what they frame or divide, where they intersect or direct the eye. I love the presence of symmetry without things being the same. A balance. 😌
📕 More chapters: kimberlykuniko.substack.com. ☁️
#taylorpestellianchapters
📕 More chapters: kimberlykuniko.substack.com. ☁️
#taylorpestellianchapters
February 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I’m a sucker for stumbling upon boxes within boxes. I love lines- seeing what they frame or divide, where they intersect or direct the eye. I love the presence of symmetry without things being the same. A balance. 😌
📕 More chapters: kimberlykuniko.substack.com. ☁️
#taylorpestellianchapters
📕 More chapters: kimberlykuniko.substack.com. ☁️
#taylorpestellianchapters
Ohayou from Japan where I’m helping my mom recover from surgery.
1) Surprised my mom at the hospital on discharge day, hiding in the hall for the reveal. She kept reaching for my hand as if I weren’t real + she had to check. 🥹
2) Hokkaido eggs = next level.
3) Errands!
#taylorpestellianchapters
1) Surprised my mom at the hospital on discharge day, hiding in the hall for the reveal. She kept reaching for my hand as if I weren’t real + she had to check. 🥹
2) Hokkaido eggs = next level.
3) Errands!
#taylorpestellianchapters
February 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Ohayou from Japan where I’m helping my mom recover from surgery.
1) Surprised my mom at the hospital on discharge day, hiding in the hall for the reveal. She kept reaching for my hand as if I weren’t real + she had to check. 🥹
2) Hokkaido eggs = next level.
3) Errands!
#taylorpestellianchapters
1) Surprised my mom at the hospital on discharge day, hiding in the hall for the reveal. She kept reaching for my hand as if I weren’t real + she had to check. 🥹
2) Hokkaido eggs = next level.
3) Errands!
#taylorpestellianchapters
Ch. 1:
(1) Konnichiwa!
(2) Haiku while waiting for a flight
(3) Meeting my sister in Asahikawa: warmth amidst ice.
(4) Nervous to try odango cuz it’s so iconic I’ve worried it’d be too sweet for me when I very much *want* to like it! Yokatta ne, I liked it, but I only eat one mochi at a time. 😂
(1) Konnichiwa!
(2) Haiku while waiting for a flight
(3) Meeting my sister in Asahikawa: warmth amidst ice.
(4) Nervous to try odango cuz it’s so iconic I’ve worried it’d be too sweet for me when I very much *want* to like it! Yokatta ne, I liked it, but I only eat one mochi at a time. 😂
February 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Ch. 1:
(1) Konnichiwa!
(2) Haiku while waiting for a flight
(3) Meeting my sister in Asahikawa: warmth amidst ice.
(4) Nervous to try odango cuz it’s so iconic I’ve worried it’d be too sweet for me when I very much *want* to like it! Yokatta ne, I liked it, but I only eat one mochi at a time. 😂
(1) Konnichiwa!
(2) Haiku while waiting for a flight
(3) Meeting my sister in Asahikawa: warmth amidst ice.
(4) Nervous to try odango cuz it’s so iconic I’ve worried it’d be too sweet for me when I very much *want* to like it! Yokatta ne, I liked it, but I only eat one mochi at a time. 😂
escaping to
the far side of
far from here
Paper moths made with repurposed materials, colored pencils, and found words.
More of my makings: #lacelitpaperlings #kimberlykunikopoetry
#mixedmediaart #collage
the far side of
far from here
Paper moths made with repurposed materials, colored pencils, and found words.
More of my makings: #lacelitpaperlings #kimberlykunikopoetry
#mixedmediaart #collage
February 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
escaping to
the far side of
far from here
Paper moths made with repurposed materials, colored pencils, and found words.
More of my makings: #lacelitpaperlings #kimberlykunikopoetry
#mixedmediaart #collage
the far side of
far from here
Paper moths made with repurposed materials, colored pencils, and found words.
More of my makings: #lacelitpaperlings #kimberlykunikopoetry
#mixedmediaart #collage
Inspiration’s a curious thing. Sometimes, bits and pieces from a variety of spaces and places tucked away for safe keeping, come flooding out in ensemble.
Aspects of this friend are inspired by Sarai from Laini Taylor's “Strange the Dreamer” + video game art in GRIS. 🌱
By #lacelit
#illustration
Aspects of this friend are inspired by Sarai from Laini Taylor's “Strange the Dreamer” + video game art in GRIS. 🌱
By #lacelit
#illustration
January 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Inspiration’s a curious thing. Sometimes, bits and pieces from a variety of spaces and places tucked away for safe keeping, come flooding out in ensemble.
Aspects of this friend are inspired by Sarai from Laini Taylor's “Strange the Dreamer” + video game art in GRIS. 🌱
By #lacelit
#illustration
Aspects of this friend are inspired by Sarai from Laini Taylor's “Strange the Dreamer” + video game art in GRIS. 🌱
By #lacelit
#illustration
we
could
climb over or through
so we did
(Mixed media art collage journaling: hand-cut repurposed paper, colored pencil, found words assembled from various source materials)
More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings
#collage #mixedmediaart #analogcollage #foundwords #poetry
could
climb over or through
so we did
(Mixed media art collage journaling: hand-cut repurposed paper, colored pencil, found words assembled from various source materials)
More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings
#collage #mixedmediaart #analogcollage #foundwords #poetry
January 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
we
could
climb over or through
so we did
(Mixed media art collage journaling: hand-cut repurposed paper, colored pencil, found words assembled from various source materials)
More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings
#collage #mixedmediaart #analogcollage #foundwords #poetry
could
climb over or through
so we did
(Mixed media art collage journaling: hand-cut repurposed paper, colored pencil, found words assembled from various source materials)
More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings
#collage #mixedmediaart #analogcollage #foundwords #poetry
DESIGN Sneak Peek // Winter Woodland Snow Globe stickers just arrived, and I’m so happy with how they turned out. Coming to the shop soooooon. ✨
💌 Subscribe to be the first to hear when they arrive: bit.ly/lacelit
☁️Lacelit Shop: lacelit.com/shop
#illustration #design
💌 Subscribe to be the first to hear when they arrive: bit.ly/lacelit
☁️Lacelit Shop: lacelit.com/shop
#illustration #design
January 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
DESIGN Sneak Peek // Winter Woodland Snow Globe stickers just arrived, and I’m so happy with how they turned out. Coming to the shop soooooon. ✨
💌 Subscribe to be the first to hear when they arrive: bit.ly/lacelit
☁️Lacelit Shop: lacelit.com/shop
#illustration #design
💌 Subscribe to be the first to hear when they arrive: bit.ly/lacelit
☁️Lacelit Shop: lacelit.com/shop
#illustration #design
We Build Stories in Layers
we build stories in layers
we mix, mingle, one thing over another
shaking things up into a better story…
Read full blogpost or listen to me read aloud: kimberlykuniko.substack.com
More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings #kimberlykunikopoetry
#collage #mixedmediaart #poetry
we build stories in layers
we mix, mingle, one thing over another
shaking things up into a better story…
Read full blogpost or listen to me read aloud: kimberlykuniko.substack.com
More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings #kimberlykunikopoetry
#collage #mixedmediaart #poetry
January 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We Build Stories in Layers
we build stories in layers
we mix, mingle, one thing over another
shaking things up into a better story…
Read full blogpost or listen to me read aloud: kimberlykuniko.substack.com
More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings #kimberlykunikopoetry
#collage #mixedmediaart #poetry
we build stories in layers
we mix, mingle, one thing over another
shaking things up into a better story…
Read full blogpost or listen to me read aloud: kimberlykuniko.substack.com
More of my art: #lacelitpaperlings #kimberlykunikopoetry
#collage #mixedmediaart #poetry
Reposted by Kimberly Kuniko | Lacelit Studio
Hello, friends! I’m hosting a sticker fundraiser for the UNRWA. It’s a np org providing aide in Palestine whose work is being banned by the Isræli parliament.
Stickers are $5 + ship free for US domestic or intl sticker-only orders. Share it on!
lacelit.com/product-page/justice-sunbird
Stickers are $5 + ship free for US domestic or intl sticker-only orders. Share it on!
lacelit.com/product-page/justice-sunbird
January 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Hello, friends! I’m hosting a sticker fundraiser for the UNRWA. It’s a np org providing aide in Palestine whose work is being banned by the Isræli parliament.
Stickers are $5 + ship free for US domestic or intl sticker-only orders. Share it on!
lacelit.com/product-page/justice-sunbird
Stickers are $5 + ship free for US domestic or intl sticker-only orders. Share it on!
lacelit.com/product-page/justice-sunbird
Hello! I'm Kimberly Kuniko, a mixed Nikkei American illustrator, collage artist, stationery designer, and host of the Dream & Scheme Community for small business owners + Guided Creative Retreats and creative workshops. Find my work at lacelit.com + little chapters at kimberlykuniko.substack.com.
January 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Hello! I'm Kimberly Kuniko, a mixed Nikkei American illustrator, collage artist, stationery designer, and host of the Dream & Scheme Community for small business owners + Guided Creative Retreats and creative workshops. Find my work at lacelit.com + little chapters at kimberlykuniko.substack.com.