Archive for October, 2007
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Hokkaido Light
Today Shibata from S-Air and I went on a road-trip to collect some tuna remains from a fisherman’s restaurant by the coast. Thank you, Shibata, for stopping the car so many times so that I could take these pictures.
This used to be a typical dairy-farm, Hokkaido style. They have Holsteins here and milk became only popular after the second world war. The Japanese word for cow is Kiu (almost like the German ‘Kuh’)
Giant polders and Shibata-san to give them scale. The polders are cast in situ, on the next picture you can see the mold.
If my dad was here he probably wouldn’t know what to draw first- surely would not walk past these vessels…
…luckily my weapon of choice is the camera and I don’t have to make such difficult decisions.
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Life in Technicolor
Before yesterday I thought the Japanese awe of their Indian Summer came partly down to their wonderful ability of being fascinated by small things - I thought - well, we have a colourful autumn in Europe, we just don’t talk about it all the time. I was wrong - I have never before seen such mesmerising natural colours as in the park here. All in all I counted 9 watercolour painters and 11 other photographers, plus gazillions of people taking pictures with their phones. No filter or photoshop involved, I promise.
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Mount Moiwa
This morning I got up early and went to Mount Moiwa before going to the studio. The colours of the trees are getting brighter every day.
City of the living vs. city of the dead
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Dried fish, Kombu and the chainsmoking Native
We started early for our daytrip as we had to drive four hours to reach the Kombu factory (Japanese edible algae) on the Pacific coast. En route we stopped at a village famous for it’s fish and at the home of an Ainu man, kind enough to enlighten us in the traditional way of making salmon leather.
