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◉ 034 | What's the price of being normal?

◉ 034 | What's the price of being normal?

December 07, 2025

“This morning,

I googled

Erica Hoy

again.”

Anton — A Room Full of Pictures, Issue 033, 30 November 2025

“Actress Erica Hoy died in a multi-person car crash on the Port River Expressway in the Australian city of Gillman on Tuesday evening.

She was 26.”

New York Post / news.com.au, 3 November 2022

“I was standing there,

looking at twins

on the wall,

knowing that now

there was only one.”

Anton — A Room Full of Pictures, Issue 033, 30 November 2025

“She was a bright, happy, positive young girl.”

“She was coming back from an acting course when it happened.”

Greg Hoy (Erica’s father), 9News, 3 November 2022

“Erica and her identical twin Lisa, who go by the last name Kunimatsu in Japan, were born to a Japanese mother and Australian father before migrating to Australia in 2015.”

New York Post / news.com.au, 3 November 2022

“They were together in every photo

as the main protagonists,

always framed by the same

bright red torii gate

they carried across South Australia—

a piece of Japan

standing on this side

of the world.”

Anton — A Room Full of Pictures, Issue 033, 30 November 2025

“This pilgrimage is a present-day migrant’s tail, a cross-cultural art collaboration offering a glimpse of experiences and emotions during Lisa and Erica’s first five years in a new world.”

Peter Hall, pilgrimartjourney.com

“I got this idea

to find Japan

in Australia.”

Anton — A Room Full of Pictures, Issue 033, 30 November 2025

“Erica was in the passenger seat with her twin sister Lisa, who was driving when their Toyota was slammed from behind by Carlie Richards’ Holden Cruze in November 2022.”

7News, 18 November 2025

“Carlie Eileen Richards was driving on the Port River Expressway in Adelaide’s outer north on November 1, 2022, with meth in her system and at average speeds of 157km/hr in the seconds before she rear-ended a Toyota Prius.”

news.com.au, 19 June 2025

“I wandered around

aimlessly.”

Anton — A Room Full of Pictures, Issue 033, 30 November 2025

“The impact pushed the vehicle into the path of an oncoming truck. Erica sadly didn’t survive the impact.”

7News, 18 November 2025

“Erica’s sister Lisa and Erica’s boyfriend Mike Reader were also seriously injured in the crash.”

7News, 18 November 2025

“Lisa suffered several injuries, including damage to her pelvis and kidney and a broken nose.”

7News, 18 November 2025

“It was like working with one person even though there were two people – and yet they were also individuals in their own right.”

“Theirs was a very special bond.”

Peter Hall, New York Post / news.com.au, 3 November 2022

“I need time to mourn the loss of beautiful Erica, of whom I was planning to propose soon and spend a life with.”

Mike Reader (Erica’s boyfriend), 7News, 17 November 2022

“I love Japan.

Though,

I’ve never been to Japan.”

Anton — A Room Full of Pictures, Issue 033, 30 November 2025

“Reader suffered a traumatic brain injury, broken ribs and injuries to his lungs, liver, kidney and pelvis.”

7News, 18 November 2025

“She never gave us anything to worry about.”

“I’m glad she didn’t pass away alone.”

Greg Hoy (Erica’s father), New York Post / news.com.au, 3 November 2022

“Richards, 41, was high on meth and travelling almost 100km/h over the 60km/h speed limit at the point of impact.”

7News, 19 June 2025

“A drug-addicted mother of four will not be held criminally responsible for killing an aspiring actress in a high-speed hit-and-run crash, after a judge found she was mentally incompetent at the time.”

7News, 19 June 2025

“Mount Observation.

Nothing like

Mount Fuji.”

Anton — A Room Full of Pictures, Issue 033

“Judge Matteo said in her findings that she found Richards was experiencing delusions at the time of the collision but that the drugs in Richards' system did not contribute to them.”

ABC News, 19 June 2025

“Richards, 41, believed she was being chased by a small security vehicle.”

news.com.au, 19 June 2025

“How the fuck am I going to find

Mount Fuji in South Australia?”

Anton — A Room Full of Pictures, Issue 033, 30 November 2025

“I was running for my life, okay? Do you understand that?”

Carlie Eileen Richards, police interview, 9News, 18 November 2025

“My heart broke in that moment and it has never been whole again.”

Misa Kunimatsu (Erica’s mother), 9News, 18 November 2025

“It was like opening an attic door

in the ceiling,

with the hinges fixed at the equator,

and watching Japan

drop through onto our side

of the world.”

Anton — A Room Full of Pictures, Issue 033, 30 November 2025

“I’m going to fucking hurt you. I’ll shoot you with your own fucking gun.”

Carlie Eileen Richards, police body-cam footage, 7News, 18 November 2025

“...remember Erica not just as a victim, but a real person who mattered.”

Misa Kunimatsu (Erica’s mother), 7News, 18 November 2025

“Richards was found to be mentally impaired, but for the families, knowing she won't be held criminally responsible for the crash, is a tough pill to swallow.”