“WEAR YOUR True Colors Project” – First Round of Participating Artist!

JUN was born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1992 and is the editor in chief of NEUT Magazine. After graduating from Seikei University, he joined the editorial department of socially aware web magazine “Be inspired!” After becoming the editor in chief, in October of 2018, he published the inaugural issue of NEUT Magazine, which promotes “a neutral perspective for living a life without being restricted by conventional values.”

Mochizuki is a painter and artists that expresses in various forms. He practiced in calligraphy and photograph since a young age. Survival Drive is his most known work, which is a publication with a collection sketches that he made while travelling through Japan. He is now based in Tokyo where he records the changing landscape of the city. He is the founder of guerrilla newspaper NEWTOKYOPOST.

Kanai is an illustrator and comic artist who also writes essays and texts that are he compiles and self-publishes as zines. He mixes personal experiences and political issues in hopes to capture even the slightest characteristic of queerness and address this through his expression.

haru was born in 1995. While studying at Tokyo Art University, she founded independent magazine HIGH(er) magazine as its editor in chief with artists of her generation. After collaborating with various brands she established HUG. As its Director, she produces content and manages artists with a mission to deliver new values.

Toda likes to ponder about issues that are dire to him, differences he feels with others, and things that touch his heart. In 2014, he produced his first “Tomidamikuji” and opened “Todanoma.” He has setup shop in outdoor markets, art exhibitions and live events. In 2016, he produced a poetry reading piece “TODA club Soramimi Hour” where he read his poems. Two times a week he commutes to life-care support facility Nuca – Tsukurutoko.

Nuca is a transient place where people can examine small things that happen in life, be happy and sad about it, and can succeed or fail. With its foundation in life-care support, Nuca is a welfare facility where people can live as themselves through art. It’s unusual name comes from “Nukadoko” – a rice bran bed for fermenting and making pickles. Things that may seem intimidating at first, can present new values that where unnoticed when you change the angle to look at it. We hope that such values and individual interests can ferment over time and spread through society like the Nukadoko.
Operations: Nuka Tsukurutoko (Life care support facility), Atelier Nucagokko (Afterschool, temporary, and general welfare services)
Operating Office: Nuca Ltd.
http://nuca.jp/

Mr. Ichida paintings are always cute. Plants and animals are deformed, and his pieces made with simple shapes and colors look like colorful textiles from Scandinavia. His works includes signage made from plastic straws, original artwork, and cardboard boxes of snacks (with the inside already eaten) taken apart and tied together with scotch tape. Additionally, he makes daily works, which incorporate words that are inspired by things he did on his days off.

Ryuchell is an artist and television personality born on September 29, 1995 in Okinawa. After graduating from high school he decided to move to Harajuku to express his true self. Starting his career as an amateur fashion model, Ryuchell soon became a nation-wide television personality. In 2018, he was named as the “Shibuya Diversity Evangelist” by the mayor of Shibuya City. In April 2019, he released his first album SUPER CANDY BOY, and continues to send his message through various forms of media.