Wade and Leta

Two years ago, we transformed the rooftop of into a colorful spring playscape—bringing music to your eyes in Tokyo.

We called it “Falling Into Place,” a reflection of a moment when many things were aligning as we redefined and redirected our work. We spent hours watching families and people of all ages play, sit, jump, and invent their own ways of interacting.

The shape kids gravitated toward most was the oblong circle. They saw it as a slide, a toy car ramp, something to climb—something entirely their own. Every project carries these lessons forward: the way we define a space is never fixed, and children are always the first to show us what’s possible.

Grateful to for making it possible, and to 🩵💜❤️

Last week, we were in Manila to give a talk to an enthusiastic audience of 3,500 people about our work, life, and the manifestation of our creative practice at . It isn’t often now that we give talks at conferences, but when we do, it really is such an outpour for us of our dreams, our desires, but also of our reflections and our gratefulness for where we have managed to end up.

We signed autographs (a first) and took selfies for over an hour before we were swept away by security for a speaker’s dinner—it was a whirlwind. If you had told us 10 years ago when we started the studio it would lead to speaking to 3,500 people and deleting our presentation off our computer 1 hour before speaking we wouldn’t believe you. Thankfully, we recovered it in time.

We’re so grateful to be given a platform to speak about our journey openly and honestly. The talk is a representation of our journey to get here and our continued journey. Thank you everyone for being a part of this story and for supporting us, rooting for us, and believing in us. We’re forever motivated by your words of encouragement.

Introducing our first beloved homeware item, the San-Rin (Three dignified rings - the name is a bit of a mixture of Japanese word for “three” and the elimination of the -G from the English word “ring”) vase, presented at the Home-Home exhibition at in Chiba, curated by . Bringing together 16 visual artists from around the world, the exhibition took place within a house designed in 1974 by Ren Suzuki, who worked with Le Corbusier in France in the 1950s before returning to Japan.

We wanted to take the opportunity to create something that people could live with, since our sculptural work can be quite large in size and we wanted to push ourselves to make something that could sit in the intimate and personal space of a home.

San-Rin is made from one solid piece of keyaki wood and turned to develop the ōdango-like form and finished with a black acrylic coating which still allows the wood to present its natural beauty while protecting it for longevity. Originally intended to be a candle holder, we didn’t want to ruin such a beautiful form with melted wax, and opted to create a vase instead. The possibilities for self expression were greater with this context, and for the exhibition, a single branch of early ume blossoms felt like the right amount of styling. We’re looking forward to seeing how it can be styled as the seasons change.

Our hope is that, as a studio, we can make works of all kinds that people can appreciate. Whether something is 14 meters or 14 centimeters, we want to give use to these things and encourage personal expression. The big challenge here was to make the material sing and as you can see we limited the color!

We want to thank for helping us to craft this beautiful project and for being willing to try something new!

It’s been about one year since we completed our largest installation ever in Singapore at . This was our first time incorporating movement into our works and it has become an addicting component of our projects moving forward.

Scale brings a sense of wonder, and movement transfixes the viewer. While it was up throughout the months from November 2024 until February 2025, this Monument to Movement transformed from earthy greens and blues to festive golds and reds, exploding into celebration and growing in scale (you can see the transformation on the final slide). Swings were incorporated into the base of the piece to encourage people to participate in the piece, adding further movement to the overall composition.

Thank you to for bringing us on and allowing us to explore such scale and transformation!