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染メル so-meru: Solo Exhibition in Canberra open now! キャンベラ市での個展は後8日！

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Thursday, August 13, 2015. Solo Exhibition in Canberra open now! I was only back in Australia for 10 weeks to the day when I found myself in Canberra setting up my next exhibition with my Dad. (Thanks Dad! My first solo show in Australia, "The Traces Between" opened on August 6th in the long and narrow space of Gallery 3 at M16 Artspace. オーストラリアで初ての個展です。キャンベラの M16 Artspace. で細長いギャラリーで展示しています。そのArtspaceにて、三つのギャラリースペースがあって、同時に三つの展覧会も開きます。オープニングにたくさんの人が来ました。 展覧会のタイトルを「The Traces Between」にしました&...一つの「...

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染メル so-meru: August 2015

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Thursday, August 13, 2015. Solo Exhibition in Canberra open now! I was only back in Australia for 10 weeks to the day when I found myself in Canberra setting up my next exhibition with my Dad. (Thanks Dad! My first solo show in Australia, "The Traces Between" opened on August 6th in the long and narrow space of Gallery 3 at M16 Artspace. オーストラリアで初ての個展です。キャンベラの M16 Artspace. で細長いギャラリーで展示しています。そのArtspaceにて、三つのギャラリースペースがあって、同時に三つの展覧会も開きます。オープニングにたくさんの人が来ました。 展覧会のタイトルを「The Traces Between」にしました&...一つの「...

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染メル so-meru: August 2014

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Monday, August 25, 2014. The Vagueness of Textiles and the Fake-ness Trap of Art. There’s a few words in Japanese that I miss when speaking English. There’s just no words to replace them in English that have quite the same feel or roll off the tongue in the same way. For example, y. Just as I expected) sasuga. That's so typical) naruhodo. It all makes sense now) or bimyo. Vague, hard to categorize). It really shouldn't be. It really is complex. Onigiri opening step-by-step by Sake Puppets. It’s not...

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染メル so-meru: Why can't you touch Art? 作品を触っちゃダメって何？

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Saturday, March 14, 2015. Why can't you touch Art? The lady in her lurid yellow fitted jacket raced over to me and told me not to touch the artwork. I told her, "But I'm the one who made it; this is my artwork! She frowned and did that Japanese suck-air-through-your-teeth thing and said that if I touched it, other people would think it's okay to touch it too. What if I actually don't mind people reaching out and touching my work? Its fabric, it's washable, it's FINE! Don't roll your eyes at the word "ins...

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染メル so-meru: June 2013

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Sunday, June 30, 2013. The Obi Dyeing Challenge: Australia's 4 Seasons 帯を染める挑戦－オーストラリアの四季. For the first time, during this May and June, the Kyoto Seika Textiles department ran an obi dyeing class for the second year students. The project brief was to dye an Obi with the theme of the four seasons. You were allowed to focus on just one or all four of the seasons and could utilise katazome. この六月、京都精華大学のテキスタイルコースが始めて二年生のために帯を作る授業を行いました。テーマは日本の四季で、型染や友禅染の技法をどちらも利用できました。 Sunburn.haha you get the idea....キャンベラ...

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染メル so-meru: December 2013

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Friday, December 6, 2013. Maida Yuzen Studio Visit - Kanazawa 加賀友禅を接する. After telling anyone that wanted to listen that I was dying to visit Kanzawa, (dyeing to? Hahaha) I finally made it there last week. I was especially interested since learning that Kanazawa is home to a particular style of yuzen dyeing called Kaga Yuzen. (Kaga is the historic name of the region) From what I saw in books, I felt the Kaga style had some parallels to my own work so I really wanted to go and see it in real life. In the t...

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染メル so-meru: March 2015

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Saturday, March 14, 2015. Why can't you touch Art? The lady in her lurid yellow fitted jacket raced over to me and told me not to touch the artwork. I told her, "But I'm the one who made it; this is my artwork! She frowned and did that Japanese suck-air-through-your-teeth thing and said that if I touched it, other people would think it's okay to touch it too. What if I actually don't mind people reaching out and touching my work? Its fabric, it's washable, it's FINE! Don't roll your eyes at the word "ins...

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染メル so-meru: September 2013

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Monday, September 16, 2013. Dyeing Endangered Parrots 絶滅危惧種を染める. 研究生であった二年間、作品に描写したのが単に「オーストラリアの鳥と植物」だった。でも、最近はそのテーマから、ちょっと知的というか、何かのメッセージを持っている作品を作りたかったのだ。「知的」という点で誤解しないでね！くだくだしいアーティストステートメントを読むときや. どっかの作家さんに無理やりに作られたコンセプトのことを聞くと、笑ってしまう人間のだ。作品より文章を過大視しるのが好きじゃないから。けれども、色んなことを研究するのが楽しいから、研究したことを何とか作品にも表現するのが面白いだと思う。 In my work made whilst a research student, my main focus was simply Australian Parrots and Australian native flora. The fact that. Bird and Flower Paintings and Bird Tea Houses. We have so man...

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染メル so-meru: December 2014

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Difference between Silk Painting and Yuzen? 今間、9月にオーストラリアで友禅染の作品を展示した時に思ったことがあった。「友禅ってシルク・ペインティングと一緒ちゃう？」. 65288;笑。頭の中が関西弁になってんやで。爆笑）. When I was in Australia in September, I exhibited some of my Yuzen artworks and I started thinking, "Isn't Yuzen just another way of saying Silk Painting? Isn't this just Silk Painting? よく考えてみたら、両方はペースト状の防染するもので、線を引いてから上に染料を好きなように塗るというやり方です。線のところは同じく染料をふせいで、染め上がった生地には白い線が残っている模様になります。 Silk painting - hydrangea. So, what's the difference then?