Tag Archives: The Heart of No Place

Rika Ohara: At Home In-Between

By Sofia Rose Smith | Published: May 12, 2010

1980 marks the year of Rika Ohara’s arrival in the U.S. from her native Japan. At eighteen, she left the place that had been her home to pursue what would become a prolific career in the arts, unfolding and taking shape in all kinds of graceful, messy, and unexpected ways.

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Wintered Abundance

By Sofia Rose Smith | Published: February 8, 2010

Last Friday, Oliver and I sat down with the artist of an upcoming episode, Rika Ohara, a filmmaker whose most recent work The Heart of No Place sparked a conversation among us about the meaning of “home”, “in-between” spaces, celebrity, assumption, technology, personal history, migration, movement, and food.

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