ABOUT

NOMADIC TOYS is a jewelry project by Takasugi Shizuyo. All works are designed by the artist herself and handcrafted in her small studio in Kyoto, Japan.

Following earlier explorations into wearable interpretations of drawings, she began to pursue a nomadic approach to art-making — one that is not limited by materials or the act of wearing. The artist gradually came to focus on jewelry as “treasures that can be carried, freely shared with others, and cherished for a long time like a wearable poetry.” 

Jewelry is movable. Unlike a tattoo, it is never fixed to the body. It embodies only a momentary state, yet always retains the possibility of becoming nomadic, a quiet form of liberation.

From this perspective, this jewelry project is named NOMADIC TOYS.

NOMADIC TOYS is a wearable form of wandering. Objects that affirm the freedom to belong nowhere. Rather than symbols of status or identity, they invite another kind of value. Perhaps the luxury lies in finding fascination there.

NOMADIC TOYS also believes in the power of small voices. The world is not moved only by the loudest ones.

Small voices.
Nameless voices.
Voices that have gone unheard.
Words scattered and left behind.
Feelings that were never truly cared for.

I find beauty in them.

I want to gather the voices, words, and feelings that have been overlooked or never fully valued, and offer them a place to exist.

Small objects can carry thoughts, memories, resistance, and the longing for freedom, moving quietly with the people who wear them.

I make jewelry because I believe in that possibility.
Every voice deserves a place to exist.

(The name has been in use for my project since around 2022)

ARTIST

Takasugi received a Bachelor’s degree in Aesthetics from Kyoto University of the Arts. Her graduation thesis, “Dissolution of Fantastic Forms: The Circular Movement of Toy Play” which explored toys and play in human experience, received an academic award from her department. She later studied contemporary art at an alternative art school once existed in Osaka.

Through both her artistic practice and her experience of motherhood, she gradually began questioning why artworks were often confined to walls, display platforms, and interior spaces. This inquiry led her to transform drawings into three-dimensional works using various materials, reconstructing them as wearable forms.

Later, inspired by her longstanding interest in contemporary jewelry, she began studying metalworking at Hiko Mizuno Jewelry College in Osaka. Following approximately two years of production and experimentation, she launched NOMADIC TOYS as a jewelry project in July 2026.