Video artist Haruka Komori (b. 1989, Shizuoka) and painter and writer Natsumi Seo (b. 1988, Tokyo) began their artistic collaboration since working together as volunteers in the wake of the East Japan Great Earthquake in March 2011. Starting in 2012, they worked together living in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, for three years. In 2015, the duo founded the organization NOOK, to keep records of collaborating with local communities, and moved to Sendai, Miyagi. Komori + Seo currently create and exhibit works drawing upon the landscape and words of local residents, organizing and carrying out events for conversation. Their exhibitions so far include "Compilations of Memories and Records", Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama (2017), "Kibo no Uta to Mai o Tsukuru - Tokyo Sudara 2019" [Creating Songs and Dances of Hope - Tokyo Sudara 2019], Lifestyle Design Center Gallery, Tokyo (2020), and the 12th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2019). Their traveling solo exhibition "under the wave, on the ground" was held across 10 locations in Japan including Rikuzentakata and Kobe.