My image of fabric art has been clouded by vague impressions of shaggy rug hangings, unsatisfying yarny concoctions, and heaps of twine or rope symbolizing something or other. But that all changed when I went to Stitch by Stitch, an exhibition of Japanese fabric artists at the Teien Art Museum (one of my favorites [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘museums’
August 13, 2009
Meditating Wind no. 76: A Tokyo Blind Spot
Earlier this month I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo or MoT. Even though it’s in central Tokyo, it’s quite a bit out of the way, in one of those blind spots far from train or subway stations. The neighborhood, Kiyosumi Shirakawa, is very traditional in a shabby way.
Nevertheless, the walk [...]
August 5, 2009
Taxonomy and Taxidermy
I’m hopelessly behind on my blog posts. The queue for museums alone is about a dozen long. I blame it on my improving back. I’ve been walking around without a cane for about a month now. It feels great to just be up and walking without pain, to be able to sit for longer than [...]
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 [...]
