Followings are the photos taken during their treatment.
Thursday 8 July 2010
Camberwell Conservation Team
Followings are the photos taken during their treatment.
Wednesday 7 July 2010
Installing Cuckoos
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Title: Cuckoos 2010
230cm x 300cm
Metal leaves, Sumi ink, pigments and gelatin gue on Japanese paper
This mobile installation took me some while to finish but it was worth to try. During the installation, I found this painting has a wide viewing angle (right - left about 120 degree) and a bit similler to how kaleidoscope works. Please check following YouTube.
Monday 5 July 2010
28th June, 2010 -Our Studio Got A Fire
Our MA Fine Art Studio at Wilson Road, Camberwell College of Art was on fire on 28th June. This movie was taken 3 days after the fire. Some students’ works got very serious damage. This is so sad. However, we are still planning to have show on schedule. We will do our utmost for the show and recover from this depression.
Fortunately, both of my works, Cuckoos and Doodles on A National Treasure Project were survived (It was almost miracle!) though they got some damage. I will write about how my works were rescued in a different article.
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Camberwell College of Art
MA FineArt Show
Private View 13th July, 2010
Open to the public 14th - 17th July
Wednesday - Friday 10:00am - 8:00pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm*
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For visitor information & travel details go to:
visit www. camberwell.arts.ac.uk/summershow2010
Sunday 27 June 2010
MACBETH at Shakespeare's Globe!
Saturday 29 May 2010
Canterbury Cathedral
Visiting this place was one of my dream.
I also joined their evensong. It was a wonderful day!
A type of literatures which has visible structures are very helpful when I think about how images can be narrative. In The Canterbury Tales (at the end of 14th century), Geoffrey Chaucer employed a narrative technique called “frame story” (short stories being connected together to create a long story), and it gave me an idea for my scroll painting in which so many different creatures run through a long scroll painting in tern.
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Artist Talk: Nihonga and the Recent Site-specific work of Toshiyuki Higashi
I'm so glad this really happened. Many thanks for everyone who gave me great support!!!
Yes. Our Rachael was there! Thank you Rachael, Rosy and Bingbing for your attendance!
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Mr. Higashi's artist talk at Japan Foundation (Russell Square) was a big success. It gathered about 100 people in spite of a short notice period. Even after the lecture, many guests stayed long to chat with Mr. Higashi. They are very much interested in Japanese style painting's techniques and tools. 5 months has passed since I sent a proposal to the Japan Foundation but I feel like all my effort was rewarded tonight. I want to send my deep appreciation to Mr. Higashi, Mr. Abe, Ms. Takekawa/ Japan Foundation as well as my art teacher in London, Ms. Rebecca Fortnum. This event wouldn't happen without your strong support!
Thursday 20 May 2010
White Roses (2010)
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White Roses (2010) paper clay Lost in the fire 28 June, 2010
(My own way of showing differences in repetitions)
I found the word “apparent paradox” while I was researching Carl Andre. I like this word and thought it would be interesting if I could create apparent paradox on my painting. In my next painting, Cuckoos, apparent paradox appears in following ways:
· Enormously enlarged small creatures
· Ordinal lives decorated by rare metals
· Differences in repetitions
· Newly painted but has exfoliated touch
· A large painting consists of small pieces
· Death as an evidence of life
Thursday 29 April 2010
Hunterian Musium at The Royal College of Surgeons
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Part of a female cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) dissected to show the developing egg, prepared by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) and presented to John Hunter, 1788.
A post card I bought at Hunterian Museum
Copyright 2005 Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons
I visited Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons tree times (may be more). I always feel down for next one or two days every time after I visit this space. While I understand these dissected collections contributed a lot for today's advanced medical technology, it is very hard for me to avoid imagine their final scream. The enormous Hunterian collection look rather cruel to me but I have to say some of the specimens in glass cylinders are just look stunning. –This place easily makes me believe I tend to appreciate beauties more than ethics and it always annoys me.
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However, I have to treat this very carefully. Why the female cuckoo in a glass cylinder looked so sad and beautiful? Instead of trying to get plausible reasoning, I made 9 sketches of another cuckoo specimen from the same angle. The sketch could be more but I stopped when I found essential lines of painful distortion in the 9th sketch. What I have seen in the glass cylinder is an evidence of her life. Though no one can help her anymore, I thought I can paint about her at least.
Tuesday 20 April 2010
William Wordsworth loved cuckoos
Anyway, I felt happy when I find William Wordsworth loved cuckoos. I learned other famous English Romantic poets had their own favorite birds: For Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), it was skylarks and for John Keats (1795-1821) it was nightingales.
TO THE CUCKOO
O BLITHE New-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice.
O Cuckoo! shall I call the Bird,
Or but a wandering Voice?
While I am lying on the grass
Thy twofold shout I hear,
From hill to hill it seems to pass,
At once far off, and near.
Though babbling only to the Vale,
Of sunshine and of flowers,
Thou bringest unto me a tale
Of visionary hours.
Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring!
Even yet thou art to me
No bird, but an invisible thing,
A voice, a mystery;
-TO THE CUCKOO, William Wordsworth
Sunday 14 March 2010
Kew Gardens
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Today, I visited Kew Gardens which was registered as a wold heritage in 2003. This pictured glass house is the largest in the world.
I wanted to sketch cherry blossoms but I found its season hasn't arrived yet.
All greens and flowers (especially orchid) are wonderful. But I can't help remember that they can be alive only inside of the green house.
I was very much impressed by the botanical painting's collection.
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This Pagoda seems important land-mark in Kew Garden. There was a Shinto-gate of Japan close to this Pagoda. Its stone garden was beautiful as that of Kyoto.
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I have seen many kind of birds in Kew Gardens: peacock, hens, geese, doves etc.
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Minka house's bamboo garden was nice too.
I remember, my grand parent's house was decorated like this when I was a child. It was a beautiful day. I will come back to this garden about the time cherry trees are in their full bloom.
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Saturday 13 March 2010
Making of Octopus
116cm x 91cm
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The leg of octopus should be very flesh. Choose the one with brighter color in a white meat part as well as a cortex part. The patience in observation is essential while sketching.
Key Tool at This Stage: Patience
Step 2:
Enlarged the octopus sketch by photo copy machine and transferred important lines onto paper.
The Key Tool at This Stage: Photocopy machine
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The materials being used at this stage:
Japanese paper, pencil, metallic leaves, gelatin and the ink for calligraphy.
Step 3:
With using a painting knife scratched the surface while the metallic leaves are still wet with. Some parts were broken by fingers to add fragile impression.
The Key Tool at This Stage: A painting knife
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Step 4:
Split the image into 4 pieces and mounted them on panels.
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Step 5:
Oxidized metallic leaves by pressing the sulfured paper with an iron.
Note:
Measuring the time and temperature are very important when using an iron.
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Step 6:
Add some lines to enhance the tablets. Vertically stretched figures need to be emphasized to give the look competitive enough to the physically divided lines.
The materials being used at this stage:
Wooden panels, mineral stones (pigments)
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Making of Cicada
Cicada
2009
116cm x 91cm I found a cicada specimen at The National History Museum.
I thought the branch-like shapes in the wings look interesting. I was wondering if I can make abstract trial with extracting the cicada’s characteristic features such as transparent wings and skeletons. I sprinkled some solution of alum imaging some part of cicada first. Then dye paper with gold ink.
The materials being used at this stage: Japanese paper, diluted alum, gold ink cake
I liked the freedom looking of dye work. I cut the paper into 4 and mount on the board after changed their order. Added some colors and tried to observe the fractals. I realized that the color works started this way are very difficult for me if I still want to stay with original motif, cicada. Though I enjoyed colors, I decide to withhold this painting because abstraction with colors seemed large issue to be studied independently from my current project.
Split the image into 4 pieces and oxidized metallic leaves by pressing the sulfurized paper with an iron. (The same technique is used in my octopus painting.)
Trying to enhance the painting with representing the wings…
I decided to omit the panel in the right end. I think I should dye paper first to enjoy this painting more. I wanted to avoid dull symmetry looking and that is why I added some wings in left sides but now the large blank space in the right side became boring
Friday 5 March 2010
OPEN SEMINAR / Finlay
To be scheduled either on 19th, 21st or 22nd. of April
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==Emoticon ==
I sent an e-mail to suggest a title for a show (see above):
It's my emoticon (=emotion + icon).
Its left part is a face. It's a scene a lady found something beautiful
beyond the torch light and she smiled.
I sometime use these emoticon in e-mails when I felt something
but don't know how to say it ('v') even in Japanese.
I need to contribute more to the class in English.
Definitely need to study hard!!
φ(.. )
==To Do List as of 5th March ==
Several students who attended Finlay's seminars have decided to meet again on 7th April at 10:00, provably in the print seminar room (we will see later).
In the meantime, we are communicating through e-mails to decide what we will do at the future "torch show" in the basement.
To decide the show title to be printed on the poster, we are going to have a quick ballot at 10.00 on either Wednesday 17 or Wednesday 24.
The Exhibition Torch: To be scheduled either on 19th, 21st or 22nd. of April.
Size: from A4 to A1.
One of us, Fianne, created a time table (possible to do list) in i-numbers on format on a mac though I haven't see the contents yet since no time to print it out at the library today (my PC is Windows).