Kirari Kirameku turns artwork made by disabled artists into bags, accessories, and objects, layered with vintage materials and ribbons from her own collection. It started when, during a social-work internship, she saw a drawing by a person with autism — a moment she describes as being struck by lightning.
Her current focus is ear cuffs — a shape she designed herself after struggling to find earrings and piercings that felt comfortable. Each piece pairs embroidered tulle with artwork by a disabled artist and her own hand-painted details, balanced with vintage beads. Every piece is one of a kind.
The word that never sat right with her is "support." Put off by what she felt was a top-down attitude in social work, she now builds her Instagram identity around "with you" instead — always beside you, not above you.
She sells overseas through a creators' shop in Australia via Gallery AGITO in Tokyo. From November, her work joins a group exhibition on mortality in New York.
