Born in Nagoya, Japan. Graduated from Tsuda College, majoring in International Development. After working as a coordinator for international security issues at the Ministry of Defense in Japan, Mizuno changed her focus to more interpersonal issues. Her work incorporates an act of eating food to probe the ways in which we care about ourselves, others, and the surrounding environment. Through her art practice, she aims to create intertwined spaces of ‘fermentation’ in a playful way. She completed the Global Art Practice MFA program at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2025.
I explore the relationships and forms of care between people, and between people and the land, through the acts of ‘eating’ and ‘touching’. To ingest is to risk in the sense that we take another substance into one’s world, yet it’s also a means of nourishing and cherishing life.
In recent years, I have focused particularly on expressing the overlooked stories and emotions held within the land through the ‘foraged colours’ of the earth.What I aim to do is not to passively observe a framed ‘landscape’ from a distance, but to turn our attention to the ground (land) beneath our feet, to feel a sense of awe, and to explore the balance between receiving from and giving back to the land.
While land can become capital or an object of ownership, and even a cause of conflict, what if it were liquid, with its own voice and agency? How would that liquidity change the relationship between people and the land? By extracting ‘colours’ from plants and minerals I forage from the land and sharing the colours with others, I am searching for ways to engage in dialogue with the land and people.