2016↔2017: Looking Back and Forward Norimizu Ameya’s “Letter from.” (Kenpoku Art 2016) begins with participants sending postcards to actual post offices in northern Ibaraki, and receiving invitation-like letters. The photo shows a spot on the bank of the Kuji RiverView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 29) ‘Tanesashi Decontamination 2016’ (III) Installation view (third floor gallery) of “Shuji Akagi + Kio Kuroda – Tanesashi Decontamination 2016” at Hachinohe City Museum of Art. © ICANO, photo courtesy ICANOF. So,View More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 28) ‘Tanesashi Decontamination 2016’ (II) Installation view (first floor gallery) of “Shuji Akagi + Kio Kuroda – Tanesashi Decontamination 2016” at Hachinohe City Museum of Art. © ICANOF. Photo courtesy ICANOF. JustView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 27) ‘Tanesashi Decontamination 2016’ (1) Installation view (first floor gallery) of “Shuji Akagi + Kio Kuroda – Tanesashi Decontamination 2016” at Hachinohe City Museum of Art. © ICANOF All photos: courtesy ICANOF.View More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 26) From the Daigo Fukuryu Maru to the present (2) I was still a high school student when I first learned of the death of Daigo Fukuryu Maru crewmember Aikichi Kuboyama andView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 25) From the Daigo Fukuryu Maru to the present (1) From the reception marking the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall (a sketch based on aView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 24) Sion Sono and Hiso hiso boshi (The Whispering Star) (2) Installation view of The Bridge of “the Verge of the Verge of Death” (2016) at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art.View More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 23) Sion Sono and Hiso hiso boshi (The Whispering Star) (1) Scene from The Whispering Star, written, produced and directed by Sion Sono. Starring Megumi Kagurazaka, Kenji Endo, Yuto Ikeda, and residentsView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 22) Daisuke Shimizu’s illustrations of caterpillar fungi (2) Aquamarine Fukushima today. All images: courtesy Aquamarine Fukushima Five years ago, at 2:46pm on March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off theView More >
Daisuke Shimizu’s illustrations of caterpillar fungi (1) Left: Torrubiella aranicida, right: Cordyceps macularis, ink and color on paper. All images: courtesy and collection of the Yonezawa City Uesugi Museum. I became familiar with Daisuke Shimizu’s name around the time IView More >