| by Maria Rosaria Roseo | Ai Kijima, a Japanese artist from Tokyo, has transformed her passion for textiles into unique and captivating works of art. Trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kijima currently lives and works between Istanbul and Brooklyn, where she continues to explore and merge her multicultural experiences into textile collages that tell stories of cultures and identities. A Passion for Fabric and Visual Storytelling Ai Kijima’s works are the result of a creative process involving a wide range of heterogeneous materials, from vintage kimonos to children’s bed linens, second-hand clothes, and traditional fabrics. Her work is a collage of stories and meanings,…