Naokin | TABlog | Tokyo Art Beat

Born in a small town in Italy he grows up thinking he's an ordinary Italian, as others around him treat him so, until one day some guests from Japan bring him some rice crackers and he's scolded by his parents for reacting the same way as his friends (eeeew! I'm not gonna eat that!) After moving to Milan at age 9 things change and he's forced to acknowledge the fact that he indeed looks a little different from others. And he learns to speak Japanese. He went to Cambridge to study architecture (quitting half way) and philosophy of education (writing a thesis that has little to do with it) and is currently spending his days learning how to look.

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