Italian Kokeshi's photostream

"I'm looking for clothes that suit me to a T.
I can't find them no matter where I go.
Form, material, and color that can express all of my inner life.
Outfits that affirm I'm alive here now
Elude me though I combine all the images I know.
Even my parents can't find clothes for me in Japan today.

Like a limbless kokeshi doll,
Like a peeled hard-boiled egg,
Like a fetus waiting to be born,
I watch for something.
Like a just-hatched wet chick,
I'm transfixed by premonitions of future joys and sorrows.
I'm not yet able to express it in words.
Yet my heart beats; I'm alive"
- Banana Yoshimoto-