this weekend a friend of mine, Akira Yonebayashi who is a former assistant to Koie Ryoji (良二 鯉江), held a mini ceramics workshop at my studio in onishi, japan for a group of employees from the Taiyo Kikaku advertising company. next week we’ll be putting the completed pieces in a raku fire with a friend of Neba’s in Kanagawa-ken.
i finally got the two pieces back i fired in chiaki horikoshi’s anagama. im going to mount onihead 1 outside, above the genkan today. the front of this house needs a lot of work.. kinda looks like a shanty with all these layers of multi-colored corrugated tin covering most of the walls. maybe this will give the house a little flare.
at the end of october i worked with chiaki horikoshi (堀越千秋), painting and putting up a theater set for a flemenco dance at sougetsu hall in tokyo. there were several people working on it but yuko takamura certainly deserves mention as she did most of the work.
the dancer in the video is michiko takano.
i couldnt get a recording of the music at the performace so i used a recording from a side project of chiaki’s, Los Agujetas En Japón.
want high quality–> go to my youtube account.
went up to sasayama to fire john dix’s anagama kiln last week. great to be back and see everyone. i had the chance to meet a number of artists firing with john this time and wanted to thank dan russo, susan kotulak and jim shea- it was great working with everyone. nothing like firing an anagama to learn what people are made of.
again, the video can be viewed in high quality through youtube.
i managed to ride through tokyo w/o getting killed.
coming up next: flamenco painting with Chiaki Horikoshi and kiln firing with John Dix.
*you can view this in high quality through youtube.