During my Artist Residency here at Ark of the Unicorns in Honolulu, Hawaii, Thursday’s Art Adventure was to meet up with my friend Mia O. She is here for the International Mokuhanga Conference and we met up at UH Manoa’s Main Gallery at the Walk-thru for the selected artists show. As mentioned before, Mia hasContinue reading “Mokuhanga Surprise – Art Adventure in Honolulu”
Author Archives: Studio Deanna
Washi and Whetstones
Best place to find a whetstone aka Tokyo Art Adventures w/Mia O – Mokuhanga Artist! Six of us, all members of Art Byte Critique, set out from our respective homes around the Tokyo Metro area and converged upon the 360+ year old, Ozu Washi paper store in the Nihonbashi area. We each had our reasonsContinue reading “Washi and Whetstones”
Artist-in-Residence at Ark of the Unicorns
First full day at Chinatown Artists Lofts and I wake up to bamboo filling a bright alcove space. In Japan, on the first day of business, it is customary to see a new bamboo stalk ready to grow as the business does. Coincidentally it was also World Bamboo Day, an auspicious beginning, I felt. EachContinue reading “Artist-in-Residence at Ark of the Unicorns”
Yokohama Triennale 2017 – Part II of II
Read Part I of II click here. The big surprise for me at this exhibition was video art. Haven’t been a big fan of it, Sometimes I’ll manage to sit through a short video, but I hadn’t been wow-ed until this show. At the Yokohama Museum of Art, Zhao Zhao’s 120min video of getting aContinue reading “Yokohama Triennale 2017 – Part II of II”
Yokohama Triennale 2017 – Part I of II
My friend Michelle Z & I agree, this year is much better than the 2014 exhibition. Much, much better! Here are the works that impressed me most, culminating in my favorite artist, who turned out to not be a part of the Yokohama Triennale! The show starts big with the work of Ai Wei WeiContinue reading “Yokohama Triennale 2017 – Part I of II”
Exploring Toba Nakamichi
Visited the lovely seaside town of Toba Mie Prefecture, this week. Toba is well worth the visit. Gorgeous in that it has been able to keep a lot of it’s old character in the beautiful wooden buildings, temples, shrines, and continue to be friendly and outgoing to visitors. Soaked in a bit of quiet, rural JapanContinue reading “Exploring Toba Nakamichi”
Epic Zen Knitting Project Done!
#37 Learn to Knit Maybe not really epic to the rest of the world but on my little bucket list it is now a box with a great big check mark in it! I have finished my very first knitting project!! The only goal was to use the entire skein of yarn using stitches howeverContinue reading “Epic Zen Knitting Project Done!”