Aya was born and raised in Tokyo Japan. She now works and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She likes Cats, seals , and receiving postcards and she has ever changing weekly obsessions, now it's Clavariaceae and star nosed mole.

She also elaborates lots of theories about lot of things. When she doesn't indulge in her obsessions she paints and draws, creating her own whimsical narratives.

http://www.ayakakeda.com/