Month: September 2010

Found Art: High Line

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You can find a few art at the High Line (oh, I love it there), this is a billboard art you see from up there that caught my eye. When I see a billboard, I think of advertising because I was in advertising industry for a long time and that’s what we did — place an ad on the billboard. So I was a bit confused when I first saw this because there was no logo for anything…?!

and then, there was a title and description:

Very interesting… and deep… (I know it’s a bit small, but I hope you can read it)

I just love that you can find art literally everywhere in this city!

LETTERPRESS Book -my pages-

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I have mentioned that my letterpress work and my studio has been featured in the Japanese letterpress book before — I have received my copy shortly after and I have read cover to cover… ohhhh I LOVE it! Miki-san did such an amazing job, I was so very impressed. It’s all in Japanese so it might not be for everyone in the world… but if you can read Japanese or have a family and/or a friend who can, or if you just like looking at Japanese letters and/or photos, I highly recommend getting this book! :)

but really, I can’t even believe it to be included here with so many amazing letterpress folks in this book. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Just wanted to share my pages… that I’m so proud of :)

All of my alphabet greeting cards are featured! Yay! (some are still work in progress… it’s completing soon, though!)

Subway Art: Christopher St.

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This Subway Art is from Christopher St. station (1) in West Village. It is so very unique and very interesting.

and it comes with titles and descriptions just like museum. Pretty awesome.

Benesse House Museum Outdoor Works and Park

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Took me a bit, but this will be my last post from Naoshima. Looking back, I really loved everything and I still have to see the Art House Project and the Naoshima Bath “I heart Yu” so I’m definitely going back there…

Today, I will share some photos I took from the Museum outdoor works and Benesse House Park work — I wanted to spend a little more time! Never enough time.

George Ricky Three Squares Vertical Diagonal , 1972-82:

These were moving by the wind and you can touch them and move them around, too.

Always changing by the weather, by the people… very interesting…

Walter De Maria Seen/Unseen Known/Unknown , 2000

We saw a huge work of Walter De Maria work at the Chichu Art Museum, this seemed like a piece from the work…

Shinro Ohtake Shipyard Works: Cut Bow , 1990

Shinro Ohtake Shipyard Works: Stern with Hole , 1990

These were side by side, right by the private beach. Love the atmosphere and backdrop with the art…

When we got to the Park area, we had a nice lunch and explored a little bit inside of the Park building (wish we had more time) — on the way, we passed this beautiful wall of art, I was so drawn to it. The colors, thousands of mirror-like squares, the patterns… it was really breathtaking. I want a wall like this in my house… someday. :)

Teresita Fernández Blind Blue Landscape , 2009

George Rickey Peristyle V , 1963-95

Another work from George Rickey and these were moving by the wind as well. Very cool and soothing to look at.

and this has been used to represent Naoshima art in a lot of places so I wanted to see it in person.

Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin , 1994-2005

and here it is! Photos taken by me :)

It’s placed in a little pier itself and it looks so awesome! I don’t know why, but it feels very summer vacation to me… doesn’t it?! :)

I will be back, Naoshima!