English follows... 参加作家紹介：岸田加奈子 『藍染めのブローチ』 「5メートル続けるうちにようやく手が動くようになった！」とは1枚目の写真「蜘蛛入り柳絞り」について教えてくれたときの話です。 使い手から、つくり手に… とはまさに岸田さんのこと。美術工芸に詳しい友人に導かれ、いつのまにか身の回りにあるたくさんの工芸品に自身でも取り組むように。絞り染めの小川裕恵先生に出逢い、ぐっと絞りの世界に深く導かれていきます。...
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。...
Everyone knows Steve Jobs but few are familiar with the companies or technologies that enabled iPhone.
in that strive for the extraordinary, do we feel exhausted by the constant look-up, the perpetual not-enough-ness?
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.
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?
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...
Sometimes, a single book can change the course of a life. For Taketsune Kubota, that book was E Kasuri—one of the first holistic study of a distinctive style of ikat textile that features more pictorial, expressive motifs than its geometric counterparts. At the time,...
Tapping Into Your Resourcefulness I hear about “being resourceful” all the time, but honestly, I never knew what that meant for me until I was really pushed. It was when I decided to venture into this Wisdom Toolkit project. I decided to spend all that I had in my...