My Ritual of Becoming

First Solo Exhibition
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS), New York · July 7–8, 2026

  • The Atlas Project

  • The Echo Project

  • The Brightline Project

  • The Northgrid Project

Featured Works

Color Pilgrimages

Each series explores a different emotional landscape through color. Rather than documenting places, these works trace an inner journey of transformation.

Green Goddess

Blue Lagoon, Portland, Jamaica Year: 2014

Photography: Alain Skanka Hottat

Location

A sacred sanctuary where the spirit of the land has been honored for generations.

Fed by mineral springs flowing from the Blue Mountains into the Caribbean Sea, Blue Lagoon has long been revered as a place of renewal, healing, and transformation. Local folklore tells of mermaids, dragons, and the Fountain of Youth—stories that continue to shape the spirit of this extraordinary landscape.

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage is listening to where your soul whispers.

During my first pregnancy, I felt an irresistible calling to this sanctuary.

As new life grew within me, I instinctively sought a place of purification and restoration. Surrounded by the living energy of green, I surrendered to the sacred waters, preparing both body and spirit to welcome new life.

Only later did I realize that color had been guiding me all along.

Purify・Reclaim・Become

IRIDESCENCE

New York | 2026

Return to your authentic self.
Embrace every color within you.

Perfect Blue

Eleanor's background spans education, coaching, and creative development. With a strong focus on process and progress, Eleanor helps learners move from where they are to where they want to be—one step at a time.

About the Exhibition

Color is not simply a visual experience.

It carries a power beyond what the eye can see.

It is an invisible language that unites people beyond borders and cultures.

For more than twenty years, I have explored one question:

How do we return to our authentic selves?

Throughout my journey as an artist, beauty educator, color therapist, image consultant, and founder of the New York Kimono Academy, I discovered that my work was never simply about beauty.

It has always been about creating moments that help people reconnect with who they truly are.

To me, color is more than something we see.It is energy.

It is a universal language that speaks beyond words.

Every photograph, performance, documentary film, kimono, and wearable artwork in this exhibition is part of that lifelong exploration.

My Ritual of Becoming brings together more than twenty years of artistic practice through photography, documentary film, performance, wearable art, kimono, and color.

Rather than asking you to simply look at art, this exhibition invites you to experience the unseen power of color.

About the Artist

Masae Satouchi is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist exploring the transformative power of color as a universal language.

After more than twenty years of living and creating in New York, she has developed a distinctive artistic practice that brings together photography, documentary film, performance, wearable art, kimono, and immersive installations as rituals of transformation.

Founder of the New York Kimono Academy and creator of the Peace Through Color Project, she believes that color transcends words, cultures, and borders, reconnecting people with themselves, one another, and the world.

Her work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Queens Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography, and the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS). She has also performed Off-Broadway, appeared on MTV, been featured in Forbes and ArtTour International Magazine, and is the author of Color Magic: Unlocking the Door of Destiny.