Memory Foam, out in the streets

Hello fellow walkers and art lovers—

We have a new exhibition out in the streets, despite the weather’s best efforts.

There was rain. Then more rain. Fairly awful weather for opening streetlamp cases and moving ceramics around the neighborhood, but we got there. Memory Foam by Onree is now in place, and we’re very happy to finally share it with you.

Here’s a little glimpse of Lorenzo and Onree being miserable during the setup. When you see them, definitely tell them you appreciate them. (This is Toto writing from the comfort of sunny Tbilisi weather 👋.)

Memory Foam

A pinch, a bend, the pressure of a fingertip. Onree’s ceramics keep the marks of the hands that shaped them. Once fired, those small movements become permanent: the clay hardens, but remembers how it was touched.

There’s something lovely about that. You can look at a finished piece and still get a sense of it being made—the soft material moving, a hand pressing, a shape finding its way.

The uneven edges and unexpected shapes give you plenty to look at. We hope you’ll take your time, lean in a little, and see what catches your eye as you move between the lamps.

Memory Foam runs October 1–26, 2026, throughout Jingumae 2-chome. It’s free to visit and open around the clock. If you missed the opening, come by whenever you can.

An umbrella may still be a sensible accessory.

Make something with Onree

On October 12, Onree will host a ceramic tile-making workshop during the neighborhood’s local matsuri, The People Design Street.

You’ll make your own tile, using stamps, tools, and everyday objects to press marks and textures into the clay. After looking at the traces of someone else’s hands, you can leave a few of your own.

You’ll find the announcement on the exhibition page. Check our Instagram for participation details.

And then, perhaps, some sake

Our neighbors at Uomamire Shinkichi Harajuku are joining in, too.

Throughout the exhibition, they’re serving sake in special ochoko cups made by Onree, accompanied by a small card introducing the work. A chance to sit down, hold one of his pieces, and spend a little time with it over a drink.

We support this kind of detour.

The cups are also available to purchase at the restaurant and on our store, in limited quantities. Ask the staff if you’d like to take one home. You can find more about the cups and the restaurant here.

We’ve also made a new website

Somewhere between all of this, we’ve been working on a new home for Jinny online (finally!).

We’re quietly soft-launching it now. A bigger announcement will follow, but we wanted to let you in already.

For those of you outside Tokyo, there’s something we’re particularly happy about: you can now take a virtual walk through the exhibition. Open Exhibitions in the navigation, choose Memory Foam, and click “Take a virtual walk.” You can browse the works lamp by lamp, wherever you happen to be.

The weather is considerably easier to deal with this way.

We hope you enjoy both the exhibition and the website. We’re very proud of them. Jinny means a lot to us, and it finally feels like the gallery we love so much has a website it deserves.

Thank you for continuing to walk with us—in the neighborhood, through these dispatches, and now, a little more easily, from afar.

As always, see you around the hood,

—Toto, Lorenzo and the Jinny Team