'I'm a super creator who integrates his own story of becoming into his art and my practice is shaped by survival, transformation, healing, and self-exploration. As a multidisciplinary artist, I work intuitively and experiment creatively, allowing ideas, emotions, materials and other unexpected discoveries guide me through the works.'
A raw, compelling survival story about an inspirational, lonesome journey of healing and self-discovery, where creativity evolved into becoming his only means of survival, and his curious strength became turning survival into a philosophy of colour and joy, even in his most depressive days, transforming adversary and struggle into elegance, beauty, inspiration, and wonderous joy through imagination and self-advocacy.
Jakulaith Sir’Musawi Wolff (aka 邪YOKOSHIMA) is a rogue, multidisciplinary artist and super creator who integrates survival, healing, and becoming into creativity and self-exploration through an ever-expanding artistic universe across various mediums including music, artistic modelling, fashion design (both garment and accessory making), literary books such as memoirs, fiction, and poetry, and many forms of visual art including stickers, crystals, paintings, and countless more. Surviving a deeply abusive childhood where he was denied the freedom of becoming one's own self, he immigrated to Australia alone to leave a religious cult and an abusive, toxic home behind to chase after that simple human right of the freedom of becoming, only to survive self-exiting and three years of homelessness later, still patiently growing himself up and out of pain by staying vigilant, resilient, joyful, and determined to build a future defined by creative freedom and self-expression without boundaries, turning dark, past struggles into elegant, hopeful, beautiful art that inspires and makes an impact.
Growing up in an oppressive, troubled upbringing within a poor, broken world without art and music where agency and freedom were considered forbidden sins by the religious cult he endured, and with no future in sight, Jakulaith had secretly crafted his own happy little imaginary universe since childhood in a room that was barred like a prison when he was 'a bird in a cage', throughout which he was always neglected and traumatized with assaults and various painful experiences — where he was surviving only through imagination in his own small bubble behind closed doors, dreaming inside 'a boxed room without a window', as his first book The Homeless Photographer explains. He later escaped at the age of 21 using a scholarship as a student abroad to both set himself free and find happiness, also to study English Literature to tell his story by immigrating to Australia to start a new life from scratch on his own without guidance in an unknown world where he didn't know what to do with himself or who he even was, making independency something he had to learn the very hard way.
When he fell into homelessness after graduating from university, Wolff's artistic journey started with writing, poetry, and photography, a most lonesome, distressful, and dreary chapter of his life for which he created books to hold, then he started painting when he became a busker to survive which ultimately saved him out of the cold and sleeping rough, and now he lives as an ever-evolving creative and founded his own fashion brand SANDSTORM, whilst also creating inspirational content and music on Youtube where he turns survival and despondency into empowerment and play through imagination into his whimsical and creative 'Starlight Starship' universe, where he is known by his artistic name 邪 YOKOSHIMA, his empowerment explained below under his artistic methodology, or in his book YOKOSHIMANIFESTO.
'I literally had nothing to lose besides myself because all I did was self-harm and attempting self-exiting, so running away to the unknown did not scare me because at least I was now finally living free. And my resilience does not mean there is no pain, because it took my life to learn how to live, and a bird in a cage dies if it wasn't allowed to sing because I was born to become who I am becoming, so besides self-advocacy, I want to share joy as much as inspiration about my reality, and on why life and self-exploration are worth living for. By using my voice, story, music and artistry, I could continue creating with purpose to make an impact and heal whilst leaving behind the legacy I was fated to fulfill.'
You can read the author's memoirs for the full story HERE.
A SORROWFUL AND LONELY JOURNEY...
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His signature experimentational touch, spiritual artistic practice, and solitary ability of transforming energy despite years of mental health struggles...
It's a comforting yet abstract, artistic methodology that was born from loneliness, self-soothing, and healing through meditation and self-reflection. Merging universes through pure curiosity and intuitive experimentation, bridging complex emotions with playful grounding, YOKOSHIMA's creative universe resembles a healing laboratory led by curiosity and oozing with regenerated energy.
'Being the universe experiencing itself really fascinates me and warms my heart. I used to fear the unknown, but now it only makes creating more exciting and me more enthusiastic about living to create more. When people ask me how I do it or how am still functioning, I tell them by practicing grounding every day and choosing curiosity and grace when I go through each thought I have.'
Because of his long history with survival and poverty, even homelessness, Wolff always made do with whatever he had since a very young and lived in a pensive world of creative imagination where he turned his circumstances around by using whatever he had at hand; when he was little, he learned how to play the piano by drawing the keyboard on torn pages, then when he grew older, what started as a toxic job apron turned into a fashionable cape during COVID lockdown. As this process of making comforting things progressed year after year, it allowed his creative language evolved, and now that he's grown accustomed to creating various artforms and transforming negative energy into positive, that's become his forte and only way he knows how to create art meaningfully. This can be seen by witnessing the evolution of his fashion brand SADNDSTORM and the kind of accessories he was making with nuts and bolts when he first started.
Working across fashion, visual art, writing, and other mediums including crystals sculpture, he embraces an improvisational and solitary process in which materials, textures, thoughts, emotions, stories, and unexpected discoveries are allowed to guide the evolution of each work. Rather than beginning with a fixed outcome, he mostly, patiently, experiments, combines, reshapes, and reimagines fragments until seemingly they find their home they belong to in a balanced, colour harmony. His practice also embraces sustainability as it transforms the discarded, broken, ordinary, and overlooked into expressive works of beauty, meaning, philosophy, and new, endless possibilities.
For YOKOSHIMA, everything needs to 'spark joy,' and nothing remains discarded or broken because there's always a fix or use for everything. Through curiosity, patience, imagination, and intuitive transformation, anything can acquire a new significance in his practice — becoming something even more beautiful and meaningful than it was before.
'It took me so long to realize that this was my strength all along and there's nothing wrong with me. I thought I was broken because of my PTSD and anxiety also bipolar disorder , even hopeless, because I used to hate the fact I couldn't do what other artists do, to actually be able to express my dark thoughts and execute my depressive emotions with dark paint... and I always doubted whether I was good enough or whether I'm even an artist to begin with, because all my beautifully planned projects fail and turn into chaos that doesn't spark joy whilst my chaotic projects on the other hand always end up harmonious and feel more comforting; it's almost like I understand the abstract language because I became close friends with abstract expressionism, that is the lonely universe itself.'
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WHAT IS 邪YOKOSHIMA?
'YOKOSHIM is the spirit in Me who helps me step into my power and strength by making it easier for me to stay sane and grounded; wise, patient, graceful, virtuous, but also whimsical, charismatic, expressive, joyful, and a baddie, too.'
邪YOKOSHIM (ironically meaning 'wicked or sinful' in Japanese) began as a given nickname during high school when he started singing in Japanese on Youtube and was deemed a 'sinner' by everyone around him to the point of punish and bullying, a nickname that turned into profound philosophy later in life as it evolved with him into a philosophy of sanityduring a time when choosing personal freedom, becoming, survival, and creative independence were seen as rebellious. Rather than rejecting the name, Jakulaith embraced it because in reality it taught him grounding, charisma, even self-respect, and over time, YOKOSHIMA evolved into both 'the monk within' and a creative persona, a symbol of wisdom, the fire, imagination, and defiant hope that carried him through the darkest chapters of his life ever since. It represents the courage to follow one’s inner voice even when that path is forbidden or misunderstood. Today, YOKOSHIMA stands as both an identity and a philosophy: the beauty that can emerge from reinvention, survival, and the pursuit of one’s dreams.
This spirit is explored further in his book 'YOKOSHIMANIFESTO – Follow That Unknown Pss Pss Within,' a short manifesto about becoming, survival, and listening to the quiet voice that pushes us toward our truest selves.
JOIN HIS CREATIVE UNIVERSE WITH HIS COMFORT PLUSHIE PIPPIP FOR A MISSION TOWARDS A BETTER FUTURE!
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★ If you’d like to join his creative universe, simply sign-up or step into his Virtual Better World Discord Community, or support him through his Starlight Starship Patreon★
INSTAGRAMS
⚡️Fashion brand: @sandstorm.fashion
🧧Cryptic poetry: @the.cryptic.poet
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