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Ria Sakurai was born on April 6, 1996, in Fremont, California, USA. She began skating at a young age and quickly rose through the junior ranks. Sakurai represented Japan internationally, as her mother is Japanese.

This manifesto led to the founding of the , a loose collective of artists who commit to spending at least 100 hours on a single piece of digital work, with no generative tools. Sakurai herself follows a strict ritual: she only creates between 3 AM and 6 AM, using a laptop disconnected from Wi-Fi, with a single candle burning. ria sakurai

One of the most intriguing aspects of ’s career is her near-invisibility. She has no public Instagram, no TikTok, and her X (formerly Twitter) account has been dormant since 2020, still displaying the default egg avatar. She communicates exclusively through a newsletter that sends exactly four updates per year, always on the equinoxes and solstices. Ria Sakurai was born on April 6, 1996,

Whether you find her work deeply moving or impenetrably melancholic, there is no denying that Ria Sakurai has carved out a distinct space in the 21st-century creative landscape—one rainy window pane, one corrupted JPEG, one silent train platform at a time. This manifesto led to the founding of the