About The Artist

Elissa Hishikawa

What is Ridicularium?
I made up this word. It's something totally ridiculous and wonderful at the same time!

I want to make something that is funny yet there will be a dark side.  Because life is not just happy go lucky kinda things.  If there's no darkness, you won't even know what light is.   So embrace your inner darkness and enjoy showing it off.   

IT ALL STARTED WHEN...

When I was 6, I've asked to get clothes for my dolls. Instead of buying the doll clothes, my mother has given me a needle, thread and some scrap fabric and said make it! Since then, I've been making something constantly. All the women in my family were crafty so I’ve picked up knitting, crocheting, sewing and so forth.

When I first learned to knit as a child, what I did for fun was knit a sweater, rip it up and knit another.  After going through every single pattern in a book I had, there wasn't anything that I couldn't knit.
A few of my crochet/knit designs have been published in Interweave Crochet magazines and Interweave Knit Scene magazines. My last publication is included in the Knitted Gift book by Ann Budd.

I have discovered Polymer clay in 2010 thanks to Christi Friesen.  You will see a lot of Christi in my work.  Since then, I have been making sculptural work, jewelry and anything that comes up in my mind.