The sweet-potato sculpturist

Hoping to find the reclusive Hideki, and in the hopes of scoring some photographs of him, I attended an invitation-only, post-bas-couture fashion-show party in the home of a sweet-potato sculpturist with whom I had a passing acquaintance. It turned out she and Hideki had attended the same vegetable sculpture class in art school, just before his rise to fame in the art world.