Sleepless Kao

About The Author

Sleepless Kao (Kaori Kasai), an artist-in-motion, graduated from art school in Tokyo and Vancouver and traveled to live and work in San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Vancouver. She creates storyboards of short vignettes about kinship, alienation, emotional boundaries and our interactions with physical environments. Her works have been exhibited at Giant Robot, Little Otsu and SOMARTS (San Francisco), Compound Gallery (Portland), gallery 1 (Japan), and the site of Helen Pitt Gallery (Vancouver). For more information on Sleepless Kao

Books by Sleepless Kao

Emily and the Mighty Om
Illustrated by Sleepless Kao
Emily has a new form of after-school entertainment when Albert moves in next door. Every afternoon he can be found on the front lawn, twisting his body into all kinds of crazy postures, then chanting “om”— something he calls “yoga.” Then one day something serious happens: Albert gets stuck, all t...
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