I found the incredible work of Japanese artist Hajime Emoto last week. He creates 'museum specimens' from paper and bamboo, here are some of his fish and sea creatures. Initially, Hajime worked with print as his medium Lithography and etching until in 1999 his attention turned to creating a bestiary.
"I’ve been dyeing yarns with random flowers and other dyestuffs to experiment with 'preserving' memories of events/people/things through colors, due to recent losses of loved ones.The tangible materials are such a solace when everything else is so digital nowadays, and the dyeing process has been the only few things that get me through these gloomy days (literally and figuratively). Most dyes are not good in quality, and they fade easily (already showing differences in shades after two weeks). But the visible change through the passage of time is somewhat reflective of the intensity of the emotional responses to the losses, which I find rather comforting." Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen
A beautiful meditation on colour, love and loss. beautiful subtle and healing in its contemplative process and nature.
'Story Boat' written by Kyo Maclear and illustrated by Rashin Kheriyeh, a story about being on the move as a family, for whatever reason', and how 'home' is constantly evolving and changing as you travel, maintained by a thread of consistancy, a cup/ a blanket. Here is home, but here is constantly changing.
"What I really want to convey was the idea that home was also a story," Maclear says. "That what could carry us in the absence of something solid was just the presence of a story." Kyo Maclear
Thank you, Joy Chu.
