踊るカツオ節と幻覚

Some observations and imaginings from my trip to Japan and one month residency at Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio.

Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio Exhibition Space, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
20-23 November 2015

Dancing Fish Flakes / 踊るカツオ節 2015
8 pigment prints, 33 x 48 cm

Bonito flakes are often used to garnish dishes such as okonomiyaki. When the steam passes through them, the flakes move like they are dancing. These photographs are some imagined bonito flake choreographies.

Ida Lawrence - Dancing Fish Flakes, detail 2015

Dancing Fish Flakes / 踊るカツオ節 2015, detail

Restoration (Tōshō-gū Shrine, Nikko) / 修復(東照宮,日光) 2015
pigment print, 33 x 48 cm

Failed Restoration (Nijō Castle, Kyoto) / 失敗した修復(二条城,京都) 2015 gouache and watercolour on pigment print, 33 x 48 cm

Failed Restoration (Nijō Castle, Kyoto) / 失敗した修復(二条城,京都) 2015
gouache on pigment print, 33 x 48 cm

Failed Restoration (Odori Station, Sapporo) / 失敗した修復(大通駅,札幌) 2015 gouache, acrylic and watercolour on pigment print, 33 x 48 cm

Failed Restoration (Odori Station, Sapporo) / 失敗した修復(大通駅,札幌) 2015
gouache and acrylic on pigment print, 33 x 48 cm

Failed Restoration (Subway Sapporo Station, Sapporo) / 失敗した修復(地下鉄札幌駅,札幌) 2015
pencil, gouache, watercolour and acrylic on pigment print, 33 x 48 cm

Failed Restoration (Subway Sapporo Station, Sapporo) / 失敗した修復(地下鉄札幌駅,札幌) 2015, detail

Failed Restoration (Sumikawa, Sapporo) / 失敗した修復(澄川,札幌) 2015
sticky tape and graphite on pigment print, 48 x 33 cm

See the development of Failed Restorations

Left:
おもちゃ絵「かつら合わせ」江戸時代、1861 (文久元)年
紙の博物館、王子、東京
Paper toy “Change a wig” (Edo period, 1861) from the Paper Museum, Oji, Tokyo
Right:
おもちゃ絵「ライダー合わせ」2015年
博物館不明
Paper toy “Change a Rider” (2015), museum unknown
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