English follows... 宗廣佳子の仕事展 参加作家紹介：ルミ W. バウマン 『陶』 幾度も繰り返された動作は、洗練されて、迷いなくて、見ていてどこも引っかかりがない。自在鉤を動かすルミさんの手元を見ていて思った。...
Female Creators
I’d Be Content to Die Tomorrow.
Yoshiko Munehiro, Weaver Yoshiko Munehiro grew up in a home where she was constantly surrounded by her father’s apprentices at...
The Job She Hated the Most…?
Portraying Mingei Stories #2 It was “pricing.” As I now write this story, I see and interpret the process of pricing as...
Embodying Your Work, Work Embodying You: Rumi W. Bauman
English follows... 宗廣佳子の仕事展 参加作家紹介：ルミ W. バウマン 『陶』 幾度も繰り返された動作は、洗練されて、迷いなくて、見ていてどこも引っかかりがない。自在鉤を動かすルミさんの手元を見ていて思った。 陶芸家であり、ギャラリーとゲストハウスも経営するルミさんの それは自作の花入れにさっと野の花を生ける所作だったり。ゲストハウスに置いてある何気ないティッシュケースやキティーちゃんの貯金箱や、壁掛けがどれもさりげなく、心地よく、ぶつかり合わずに同居していること、全てに当てはまる。...
I’d Be Content to Die Tomorrow.
Yoshiko Munehiro, Weaver Yoshiko Munehiro grew up in a home where she was constantly surrounded by her father’s apprentices at work. Her father, Rikizo Munehiro, was a designated holder of an Intangible Cultural Property (also known as a Living National Treasure) for...
The Job She Hated the Most…?
As I now write this story, I see and interpret the process of pricing as “claiming self-value.” How many of us are good at it?
In Rave of Handmade
In Rave of Handmade
A Little Prayer Sewn In
The act of sewing is, or used to be, universal. It was a way to make most of the resources we had a limited access to.
As most of us are now able to purchase clean, new clothes cheaply, the act of mending and stitching doesn’t seem to make sense at least in terms of efficiency.
Use Good Tools, My Mother Said.
Where to Place Money and Heart “Use good tools,” she said, in a frustrated manner. It was a pair of scissors, with one handle missing. I’d been using it ever since I was in elementary school. My family went on a trip to see our uncle and aunt for a summer holiday in...
Better to be heard than touched…?
Sensual sound of kinuzure Let our imagination fly free while listening to this. What did you see? A court lady taking off one of many layers of kimono…? Then you have a superpower! It was actually Norio Arai, rolling up almost 13-metre-long fine silk fabric...
The voice inside her head said ”I don’t want to go back” … and she didn’t.
Where the biggest change takes place A phrase used in an astrology reading like “a big change is coming for you” stirs the image of an external force coming to uproot me from my everyday life to unknown territory. It does sound exciting. I would want to know how and...
Fantastic Form
Organically solid soil Soil turns into a solid piece of ceramic through the magic of water and fire. These FORMs though…Every FORM piece has its own distinct, fluid shape. I won’t be surprised if they start moving at night when humans are...