Entries Tagged as ‘art’

April 27, 2009

The Kaleidoscopic Eye

Collecting Kaleidoscopes
T gets into these collection manias. Like when she wanted to collect all the Starbucks city mugs. She actually never got around to buying any because at the time, we didn’t have a home, much less a cupboard spacious enough to accommodate a global mug set.
These days, she’s really been into [...]

April 7, 2009

Jeju Notes: Off-Season Meanderings

As I mentioned in my previous post, T and I went to Jeju Island last month and I thought I’d type out some of my notes from the trip.
Jeju is Korea’s biggest island. Its oval shape is like an egg off the peninsula’s southern coast. In the middle there’s Mt. Halla, the volcano [...]

February 10, 2009

Arranging Leaves at the Setagaya Art Museum

In the previous post, I wrote about a shot I took at the Setagaya Art Museum. Just the path to get to this museum is cool. It’s a pedestrian walkway lined with artificial streams and miniature bridges for kids to play around. There’s also lots of generous seating like the his and [...]

February 6, 2009

Meditating Wind no. 66: Forbidden Mandala

The ring of jagged rocks is an art installation at the Setagaya Art Museum. As I was setting up this photo, a man came out of the museum and scolded me for doing this.
“Even though this is outside, this is still art. You can’t just walk in there.” Well, of course I [...]

January 25, 2009

Mezzotints and Post-Apocalyptic Art

Yozo Hamaguchi is a mezzotint artist. It was my first exposure to this art form and from what I gathered, it’s a metal printing method that fades colors. The pieces are still lifes, ethereal, simple, minimalistic.

Subjects include lemon halves lit up next to a darkened wine bottle silhouette. Or a glowing [...]