Water Lilies, Reflections Of Weeping Willows (Left Half) 1919

Nishino Yoichi 西野陽一  (1954 - ).

Jeannye Dudley

breathing a little deeper

Thomas Eggerer (German, b. 1963), Mint Ozone, 2015. Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 111.8 cm

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Rinko Kawauchi, Ametsuchi series (2012-2013)

What inspired me was a dream I had one day. It was of scenery so amazingly beautiful that it made me almost scared. I woke up thinking how beautiful it was. I wasn’t sure if that location really existed, but if it did, I wanted to visit it. About six months later, I saw what I saw in my dream on TV. The location did exist. I found out that was I saw was called noyaki. It is the practice of protecting a grassland by burning a field. It has been done for about thirteen hundred years. Without noyaki, a field would turn into woods. Beautiful grassland cannot be maintained without burning the field once a year. What amazes me is that it doesn’t happen naturally but is maintained by human intervention. I am very much interested in the flow and cycle of human practices. It is not only the theme for Ametsuchi but also a foundation of all my work.

Moon Hare Teapot.  A kyūsu (small teapot) made of Arita-yaki (Arita-ware) and hand-painted with the tsuki-no-usagi (moon hare) pattern.  Text and image via Blue Ruin 1 on Flickr

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