I--- Caribbean -042816-146- -042816-551- Yui Nishikawa May 2026

Caribbean Basin / Archive Ref: 042816-146 / 042816-551

For Yui Nishikawa, that silence is home. i--- Caribbean -042816-146- -042816-551- Yui Nishikawa

“The dash is the most important part,” she tells me, her voice soft over a patchy VoIP connection from a catamaran off the coast of Dominica. “The numbers are coordinates. The dashes are the silence between them. Without the silence, you just have data. With it, you have a story.” Caribbean Basin / Archive Ref: 042816-146 / 042816-551

Born in Okinawa to a Guyanese mother and Japanese father, Nishikawa was raised between naval bases. Her childhood was a collage of overlapping radio frequencies—U.S. Navy chatter, Japanese enka ballads, Calypso broadcasts bleeding through shortwave. She learned to hear borders as acoustic events. ” she tells me

For Yui Nishikawa, that is the answer.