iphone polaroid is better than original polaroid because it is so democratically good.
we don't need to know anything and it will look good.
Monday, October 10, 2011
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iphone polaroid is better than original polaroid because it is so democratically good.
we don't need to know anything and it will look good.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Mercy and white tiger
Basically since the beginning of July I have been reading novels again.
Mercy was the first book i read by Toni Morrison.
I found this book so tasty in the way that it was written, i read the book in one go. It was so well written that we just need to keep on going, which made me think how some could make words live, and bring readers to the experience further than any film, visualize the place, people and even feel the natural surroundings.
This book is written in a way that we hear the stories from the diverse characters's point of view. It is really interesting to read the same incident viewed in different point of view.
I feel as i want to engrave her message so universal about what is slavery. Slavery is not the condition of selling/ buying of humans that happened in America and europe but it is a state of mind , how we condition ourselves to certain memories and base our selves to the limitation of our own existence.
We are a slave when we are not being who we chose to be but condition our existence to the people's opinions. It speaks of dignity of who we are.
In this book what is unjust is the normality of life and how each person live through their own way, and live through the conditions that changes are inspiration to our day to day life....and this is probably why Toni Morrison is a wonderful writer ...she writes in the compassionate, strong and emotional way that doesn't remain only a fiction but give us courage and inspiration to live our lives, while telling a story of far way land in the 17th century.
If i ask myself what countries writers do i prefer to read....it will be probably the Indian writers....It is mainly due to mystery of the mentality and culture of India evoke me to read them but many writers are so skilled at story telling involving their culture and mentality almost back to back with western countries.
This is not the case for Japanese writers for me.
Even I read many Japanese writers and some have craft of story telling, For me it is not as complexly weaved as Indian context and mentality.
The white tiger has a similar theme to toni morrison's idea of "slavery". But it is written in the way that the condition of people's lives are cruel, even it doesn't attempt to make it sound dramatic ( except the scene of murder) nor something exceptional.
Perhaps the straight forwardness of style of writing makes it more harsh. It has a up beat tempo and enthusiasm as well as humor and somewhere these cruel condition seems like a passing event, even it is not and slowly evolves to other ways of seeing the event by the same person, the white tiger.
What I find it interesting in his book is that rich or poor , they were all in the same context of " slavery" in the sense of always having to pay the consequences of the corrupted , ideologic, multi-religious and surviver's society.
White tiger had chose to become a entrepreneur by killing his ex-patron because he realizes even it is a corrupted society and it is better to be well off than poor.... even rich people needed to pay and be bribed by others.... and through his experience of working for others, he has not treated his employees the way the ex-patron had treated him. In some ways, he was able to live by what he valued after becoming a patron himself.
White tiger's India is amazing because it has such a large force of life as everyone is surviver and even to the extent of people who normally have ideology such as doctors think of themselves first.( surely there are people who do not think this way too but....but this will be considered weakness.)
And even in the family life , it is so strongly tied and people have so much duty to one another.
In western or far east prospective, all that is happening in his story can be considered inhuman or insane but it feels as this is the reality of many countries, Some countries are just good at hiding the non pretty things and attempt to remain "correct".
And in this book, there are kindness, love and humility in relationships and all the opposite feelings such as violence, greed , anger, disgust are also present... not hidden nor beautified.
It is a book of soul scrubbing and adventure in India now days.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Multiculturalism, How can we create a future society?
What happened in Oslo on July 22, 2011, has marked me as the crime that killed 76 people was operated by one single person, a son of a diplomat. The main theme and ideology of the his actions were based upon anti-multiculturalism and against islamic immigrations.
In my work, one of my interest is looking for the direction towards future world via observing the minor-major state such as Hawaii.
How much the politicians in european countries may say that multiculturalism had failed, the reality is that the world is becoming further mixture of people and there is nothing that can change this direction.
Perhaps stopping it momentary with violence and dictatorship may be possible but the technological economical and historical reality will not be able to stopped or change this direction in the long run.
I have never understood people who had the ideology of mono-culturalism and homogeneity of the race as this is not how any culture has developed and it is only a myth.
It a easy way to control and manipulate people but historically no country has developed by once race influence .
For example Japan will not be what it is today if there was no relationship and immigration from China and Korea. In the" homogenous country like Japan" is made up with different origins and we can not deny Japanese colonialism in Asia.
When we look at Multiculturalism in Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, we can clearly understand it is based upon recognizing the difference.
In a place like Hawaii after many generation of immigration recognizing the difference seems odd as many immigrant cultures and Hawaiian culture became part of everyone 's culture.
It is normal that people celebrate Chinese new years with Lion dance, attend the may day celebration and dance hula , participate in "toro nagashi",bon dance and eat thanks giving dinner.
So " difference " seems like a taboo word as all culture is co-existing in the society.
But even in Hawaii where everyone lives together and harmoniously , still there is the difference expressed in daily life by people. People express these experience in conversation, in comical way usually because people do not want to do any harm...and there are racism as well, but since everyone is minority there are no real issues.
(Even though Hawaii is a mixture of groups of minorities, mainly the mixture comes from asians and europeans origins. therefore i think more recent immigration community as Latinos and minority within minority such as African descendent in country side may have more difficulty.)
Coming back to Europe, do we need further generations to have a society that people no longer have to worry about difference and accept other culture as their own as much as valuing their culture?
Will it be the only way when countries in europe becomes major minority state that the true multi-culturalism will happen?
As it is possible in Islands like Hawaii and Reunion may be in 10 generations of mixture will make europe evolve?
European history of colonization blocks this passage and keep the culture separated with in the society.
In France, still within the mind of people, the separation is " a way to value other culture" and on the other side "continue the traditional structure based on colonialism".
Therefore it is really difficult for academicians who wants to work in this multicultural aspect of society because people are often defined by their origins even they may live here for the most of their lives.
Multiculturalism at present had failed in many european politicians eyes because they do not want to change the traditional structure from colonialism.
There are many successful people who are from the minority / colonial back ground. But these are people who have a very clear understanding of their position towards their origins and cut clear with these social handicap ( even they may value their cultural heritage.) that has been manipulating many.
But these people are exceptional case even these people may say " If i can do it , everyone can."
I went to Oslo in 2008 for the first time. It was only a 4 day of stay but i was confronted by new immigration and how hard sometimes it can be.
A friend who is from another european country told me how difficult it is to be treated correctly in norway.
She is southern european with light skin and dark hair.
I could relate to her stories as these similar experiences happened to me in France.
My friends in Oslo are cosmopolitan so i did not feel the hostility in their surroundings or as a tourist visiting the country.
I was visiting my friend's studio and walking in the Islamic area of Oslo.
There was a man who asked me for direction and as i had a map and we were going the same direction we walked together for a while.
He was from north africa, one of the ex-colony of France. We spoke French together, he told me that he arrived here 4 days ago to live here. He seemed very cheerful and optimist and we just chatted about weather and how oslo is cold etc. we have parted with friendly smile.
A week later 22 July my friend who has his studio in Islamic part of the town had told us that his neighbor who is an arabic coffee merchant was relieved to know that the killing of 76 people were done by fair haired, light skinned norwegian. I think this the feeling many non-european origin living in europe can relate to.
The story above symbolizes the present european attitude towards non-white immigrants or citizens.
When I went to visit a friend in germany, i asked him, why did he not have any other friend who were minority except another friend and I. I also remarked that my best friend who live in Denmark for over 20 years now are mainly surrounded by other fair skin Danes.
They are cosmopolitan and travelled every where and not at all racist.
Are the nordic countries as their population is small and the immigration from far away land is recent, there are less opportunity to mix with other people of origins?
Or is it the social structure that segments people and not let the meeting happen?
How horribly racist Paris can be sometimes, but we are still lucky as we have many chance to meet and get to know other people.
I think this is because Paris is a very sociable city. We can have a conversation with people on the street, on the public transportation or anywhere.
The only way we can create a better society is by coming into personal contact with others.
We can not change the direction towards multiculturalism that is moving towards the full integration ( as a foreign culture existing in another as their own.) ), even it may take time and even how many people may resist.
Historically with colonialism, people have opened it's doors thinking they may be able to keep the structures of control till now but new immigration, economical reality of balance changing to other non european nations there is no other way then creating another type of multiculturalism( not based on colonialism) in social structures and politics.
No nation can exist without other countries influence and involvement in their country, and this is the only way it can keep evolving.
resistance and somehow attempting to equalize the balance may be the way to recognize change.... but trying to preserve something that is a myth ( unique existence of a race) seem non realistic, as we have been mixing blood and culture for centuries even we may not have been told.
In the proof, most of us are not full blood indigenous people from a land.
I like to end this with a story i heard from a Korean friend.
Once he was walking in front of a supermarket and the french homeless people who were drunk insulted him, called him names and laughed at him because he is asian.
He went shopping and then he came back to the place and offered a bucket of strawberries to the people who insulted him.
They were speech less.
I think he was able to create with the simple gesture something very important for our future society.
In my work, one of my interest is looking for the direction towards future world via observing the minor-major state such as Hawaii.
How much the politicians in european countries may say that multiculturalism had failed, the reality is that the world is becoming further mixture of people and there is nothing that can change this direction.
Perhaps stopping it momentary with violence and dictatorship may be possible but the technological economical and historical reality will not be able to stopped or change this direction in the long run.
I have never understood people who had the ideology of mono-culturalism and homogeneity of the race as this is not how any culture has developed and it is only a myth.
It a easy way to control and manipulate people but historically no country has developed by once race influence .
For example Japan will not be what it is today if there was no relationship and immigration from China and Korea. In the" homogenous country like Japan" is made up with different origins and we can not deny Japanese colonialism in Asia.
When we look at Multiculturalism in Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, we can clearly understand it is based upon recognizing the difference.
In a place like Hawaii after many generation of immigration recognizing the difference seems odd as many immigrant cultures and Hawaiian culture became part of everyone 's culture.
It is normal that people celebrate Chinese new years with Lion dance, attend the may day celebration and dance hula , participate in "toro nagashi",bon dance and eat thanks giving dinner.
So " difference " seems like a taboo word as all culture is co-existing in the society.
But even in Hawaii where everyone lives together and harmoniously , still there is the difference expressed in daily life by people. People express these experience in conversation, in comical way usually because people do not want to do any harm...and there are racism as well, but since everyone is minority there are no real issues.
(Even though Hawaii is a mixture of groups of minorities, mainly the mixture comes from asians and europeans origins. therefore i think more recent immigration community as Latinos and minority within minority such as African descendent in country side may have more difficulty.)
Coming back to Europe, do we need further generations to have a society that people no longer have to worry about difference and accept other culture as their own as much as valuing their culture?
Will it be the only way when countries in europe becomes major minority state that the true multi-culturalism will happen?
As it is possible in Islands like Hawaii and Reunion may be in 10 generations of mixture will make europe evolve?
European history of colonization blocks this passage and keep the culture separated with in the society.
In France, still within the mind of people, the separation is " a way to value other culture" and on the other side "continue the traditional structure based on colonialism".
Therefore it is really difficult for academicians who wants to work in this multicultural aspect of society because people are often defined by their origins even they may live here for the most of their lives.
Multiculturalism at present had failed in many european politicians eyes because they do not want to change the traditional structure from colonialism.
There are many successful people who are from the minority / colonial back ground. But these are people who have a very clear understanding of their position towards their origins and cut clear with these social handicap ( even they may value their cultural heritage.) that has been manipulating many.
But these people are exceptional case even these people may say " If i can do it , everyone can."
I went to Oslo in 2008 for the first time. It was only a 4 day of stay but i was confronted by new immigration and how hard sometimes it can be.
A friend who is from another european country told me how difficult it is to be treated correctly in norway.
She is southern european with light skin and dark hair.
I could relate to her stories as these similar experiences happened to me in France.
My friends in Oslo are cosmopolitan so i did not feel the hostility in their surroundings or as a tourist visiting the country.
I was visiting my friend's studio and walking in the Islamic area of Oslo.
There was a man who asked me for direction and as i had a map and we were going the same direction we walked together for a while.
He was from north africa, one of the ex-colony of France. We spoke French together, he told me that he arrived here 4 days ago to live here. He seemed very cheerful and optimist and we just chatted about weather and how oslo is cold etc. we have parted with friendly smile.
A week later 22 July my friend who has his studio in Islamic part of the town had told us that his neighbor who is an arabic coffee merchant was relieved to know that the killing of 76 people were done by fair haired, light skinned norwegian. I think this the feeling many non-european origin living in europe can relate to.
The story above symbolizes the present european attitude towards non-white immigrants or citizens.
When I went to visit a friend in germany, i asked him, why did he not have any other friend who were minority except another friend and I. I also remarked that my best friend who live in Denmark for over 20 years now are mainly surrounded by other fair skin Danes.
They are cosmopolitan and travelled every where and not at all racist.
Are the nordic countries as their population is small and the immigration from far away land is recent, there are less opportunity to mix with other people of origins?
Or is it the social structure that segments people and not let the meeting happen?
How horribly racist Paris can be sometimes, but we are still lucky as we have many chance to meet and get to know other people.
I think this is because Paris is a very sociable city. We can have a conversation with people on the street, on the public transportation or anywhere.
The only way we can create a better society is by coming into personal contact with others.
We can not change the direction towards multiculturalism that is moving towards the full integration ( as a foreign culture existing in another as their own.) ), even it may take time and even how many people may resist.
Historically with colonialism, people have opened it's doors thinking they may be able to keep the structures of control till now but new immigration, economical reality of balance changing to other non european nations there is no other way then creating another type of multiculturalism( not based on colonialism) in social structures and politics.
No nation can exist without other countries influence and involvement in their country, and this is the only way it can keep evolving.
resistance and somehow attempting to equalize the balance may be the way to recognize change.... but trying to preserve something that is a myth ( unique existence of a race) seem non realistic, as we have been mixing blood and culture for centuries even we may not have been told.
In the proof, most of us are not full blood indigenous people from a land.
I like to end this with a story i heard from a Korean friend.
Once he was walking in front of a supermarket and the french homeless people who were drunk insulted him, called him names and laughed at him because he is asian.
He went shopping and then he came back to the place and offered a bucket of strawberries to the people who insulted him.
They were speech less.
I think he was able to create with the simple gesture something very important for our future society.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Demonstration " get out of nuclear " Paris, June 11 2011 / パリ 脱原発 デモ ６月１１日
In Paris, there are so many demonstrations for all kinds of causes...almost weekly.
A Parisian friend was shocked when i told her, I never been to any demonstrations in my life.
She has been to demonstrations since she was a baby with her parents and continue to go to them.
In France and especially in some Parisian families, it is cultural to march and participate in social actions.
I being a non-group person, I feel always uncomfortable participating in an organized group actions.
Even i know group is the voice that can have an impact in a society, I have also seen the down fall of group actions that were positive at the beginning.
I was late and i caught up with the March at the beginning of the rue de Turbigo. In front, there were About 200 + Japanese people. May be more, all kinds of age groups. I followed them with a distance. I observed them, heard their slogan in French and Japanese. I stopped and waited for the following groups to pass by to see and feel the general atmosphere. All of the sudden there was a person who ran and started to put the hand made posters such as below.
I continue to follow them and kept observing the people. they were extremely calm , non violent and many of them looked like nice people. I got out my compact camera to take photographs to understand what this was all about as a process of learning.
At the end i was touched by the people, more than anything else. These people took their time to be present for people in Fukushima, thinking of Tchernobyl, our present community and the future generations. I appreciated the people's participation, it was important to see that people cared.
My vision is limited... But to me people's presence were something so reassuring and needed. In our present world of zapping, I think the most important thing is to be present. News changes every second to one subject to another. people are interested in a subjects for only short time. Many people think Fukushima is over and Tchernobyl has been regulated for many years .... even when people find out it is actually worst, they say "what we can do? We are helpless anyways".....which is also a way to avoid the real issues. We prefer to listen and talk about scandals that deals with power, sex and money because it is easier and exiting. We are educated to perceive them with some kind of excitement even they are minor subjects comparing to what is happening to our world. The capitalism rules us in even in intake and out take of the information, stronger people wins .... We prefer to talk about people with fame because it is more fashionable than talking about the real condition of our life. Even the real condition of life, concerns us all, we want to be a winner in liberal economic society so we take the attitude of being stupid or avoid these conversation which feels as a threat to our well-beings of our personal life.
We are often too busy thinking about our own life and being smart but not enough present. I think it is a big lesson i learnt from the people during the demonstration.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Watashitachi-nous
Watashitachi-Nous is a project that was born out of the disaster in north east Japan that began in March 11. This project is simply about heart, giving what we can to people in Tohoku, to you and to us. The title is to question what does "watashitachi-nous- us" mean?
It is about questioning who we were yesterday, who we are today and who we will be tomorrow. "we" means many things. it represents you and i that consists of more than 2 people, community (from family to local society, country to the world) It represents common experiences, bonds,compassion and meeting.
http://watashitachi-nous.blogspot.com/
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Combat opening lycees Branly
Last Thursday May 12, i went to Châtellerault , poitou-charente to assist an opening of the permanent, installation. I was surprised to see the result of the communication graphic students on the each phrases on the t-shirt that were dynamic and fun.
The students of silkscreen made a set of 6 post cards for Japan.
We were able to continue to make a collect for Japan.
Dancers performed break dance with the t-shirt and at the end each t-shirts were given to the students...and everyone had a t-shirt of another.
With silk screen students we spoken about what is happening in Japan, nuclear energy ,our social responsibility and what they will do in the future.
It was wonderful to see the students again and see them grow. They will finish the school at the end of the month and all will take another step of life.
The students of silkscreen made a set of 6 post cards for Japan.
We were able to continue to make a collect for Japan.
Dancers performed break dance with the t-shirt and at the end each t-shirts were given to the students...and everyone had a t-shirt of another.
With silk screen students we spoken about what is happening in Japan, nuclear energy ,our social responsibility and what they will do in the future.
It was wonderful to see the students again and see them grow. They will finish the school at the end of the month and all will take another step of life.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Link
Speaking with Myrium in the park... our dialog began with what is happening in Fukushima, how i want to create a discussion concerning this energy i grew up with but have not confronted since the Chernobyl disaster... and as most people i am not informed enough of this disaster that is a present issue still.
Our medias inform us the Buzz of the moment and when the buzz is over, in most people's mind the context is over. We are zapping society. When we enter too deep, our educational signal goes off... don't get too deep in it....to construct we do need to concentrate on main issues....but there are too much influences that breaks our concentration that last maximum of 2 hours. Then it appears again and then it another crisis in the head lines.
In definitive, we can hear personal problems for over 10 yrs, 3 hours a day but have no time to focus on what matters for the world.
But daily people are taking consequences of these incidents , even when media don't talk about it.
Some people think Chernobyl is over...and Fukushima is regulated.
"We don't have the time to think about what is happening in a far away land because it doesn't affects us in our daily life and we need to think of our life first. "
But as the radiation of Chernobyl crossed the french/ german frontiers that the government at the time said it will stop before the frontiers, "Far away disaster" has impact in our life.
It already has... by showing us how our world is so much smaller, seeing in live of what is going on in the other side of the world immediately. How we forget that we actually live in the same context, not so far from nuclear power stations and not knowing how to deal with them, Using them for all comforts as long as we live safely till our time comes.
We have been discussing about these issues for now more than decades but what is the point? Have it moved forward in anyway ?
By discussion, would we be able to change things?
How can we change things?
What is happening in Fukushima is a result of our current social crisis.( even knowing that it was caused by the natural catastrophe.)
This is seen in economic crisis or any condition of life. How everything is costing power prices and we accept many things, too much. This is the way the world functions and if we don't play a part we will struggle.
We can reflect this in many levels of our life today and majority of us is taking the disadvantage for the short term big profit of the few. These few people have the wealth and power and they are also friends that they share their advantage.
If we cut any part of our daily life, this structure is reflected, we are not in the mode for long term construction, but reaching out to the buzz, power and wealth that gives us a superficial accessory (status) rather than thinking of our context... and when people speak of the context it is often out of reach for people who are not specialized.
Our liberal economic society is creating the further gaps between social classes that the past generation fought for. When there were colonies, class society, rules were unfair,cruel,imposed and clear, now we are in time of voluntary slavery, pretending that the equality exist, which is debatable.
Our values are winning for ourselves as we can not beat the richness of the present power generations and became much more individualists than the past generations have been, but also people are more conscious that we are in a mess because of the people in past generation did not take the long term actions.
The dialog between generations falls because of the difference of the condition of life imposed as it has been also for centuries.....yet here with the nuclear power energy, it is much more than another generation have experienced. are we powerless in who we are and say yes to what we know can destroy our social system and our future generations world?
This is also why i think it is important to find another form of dialog between generations to find a link to one another.
Another form of relationships between generations( not family but unknown people at the bases) has the potential to effect changes in our future life.
Our medias inform us the Buzz of the moment and when the buzz is over, in most people's mind the context is over. We are zapping society. When we enter too deep, our educational signal goes off... don't get too deep in it....to construct we do need to concentrate on main issues....but there are too much influences that breaks our concentration that last maximum of 2 hours. Then it appears again and then it another crisis in the head lines.
In definitive, we can hear personal problems for over 10 yrs, 3 hours a day but have no time to focus on what matters for the world.
But daily people are taking consequences of these incidents , even when media don't talk about it.
Some people think Chernobyl is over...and Fukushima is regulated.
"We don't have the time to think about what is happening in a far away land because it doesn't affects us in our daily life and we need to think of our life first. "
But as the radiation of Chernobyl crossed the french/ german frontiers that the government at the time said it will stop before the frontiers, "Far away disaster" has impact in our life.
It already has... by showing us how our world is so much smaller, seeing in live of what is going on in the other side of the world immediately. How we forget that we actually live in the same context, not so far from nuclear power stations and not knowing how to deal with them, Using them for all comforts as long as we live safely till our time comes.
We have been discussing about these issues for now more than decades but what is the point? Have it moved forward in anyway ?
By discussion, would we be able to change things?
How can we change things?
What is happening in Fukushima is a result of our current social crisis.( even knowing that it was caused by the natural catastrophe.)
This is seen in economic crisis or any condition of life. How everything is costing power prices and we accept many things, too much. This is the way the world functions and if we don't play a part we will struggle.
We can reflect this in many levels of our life today and majority of us is taking the disadvantage for the short term big profit of the few. These few people have the wealth and power and they are also friends that they share their advantage.
If we cut any part of our daily life, this structure is reflected, we are not in the mode for long term construction, but reaching out to the buzz, power and wealth that gives us a superficial accessory (status) rather than thinking of our context... and when people speak of the context it is often out of reach for people who are not specialized.
Our liberal economic society is creating the further gaps between social classes that the past generation fought for. When there were colonies, class society, rules were unfair,cruel,imposed and clear, now we are in time of voluntary slavery, pretending that the equality exist, which is debatable.
Our values are winning for ourselves as we can not beat the richness of the present power generations and became much more individualists than the past generations have been, but also people are more conscious that we are in a mess because of the people in past generation did not take the long term actions.
The dialog between generations falls because of the difference of the condition of life imposed as it has been also for centuries.....yet here with the nuclear power energy, it is much more than another generation have experienced. are we powerless in who we are and say yes to what we know can destroy our social system and our future generations world?
This is also why i think it is important to find another form of dialog between generations to find a link to one another.
Another form of relationships between generations( not family but unknown people at the bases) has the potential to effect changes in our future life.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Combat : Isabelle Blondie
http://www.dunnoirsibleu.com/f/index.php?sp=liv&livre_id=71
Isabelle Blondie is a writer, my neighbor and a friend.
When I was desperate and felt helpless concerning Japan, she proposed to take this action for me and with me.
This is a post card book, that she wrote based on my work she bought last year.
She wrote this text last summer, for her short stories book but decided to give this for the cause to help people from north east cost of Japan.
She simply said the reason why she is proposing me this text for the action is because if she was in my shoes, she would want others to do the same.
In many action people think money. But sincerely for me it is not money as money sake that is most meaningful, but thoughts that is expressed through actions.
To raise money there is different ways of doing it, selling many small things or selling big things with prestige. We raise money and donate and it is used for the people because they need it.
Money remains the same, despite the quantity and economic reality, it has the same shapes and forms. If we see it through the eyes of artist Sayo senoo, it is beautiful and have a possibility of creating encounters, it is appreciated but abstract .....and it doesn't systematically create a link between us.
Our world turns with this object...not physically but many interaction with others during a day is repeated transaction.
we say, hello, how are you? thank you and have a good day. we may remember what the coffee tasted like, the food we bought,what we sold, objects we acquired and use,monthly salary paid to us, places we live, phone calls we had, movies,exhibitions or concert we saw.... but mostly i remember the faces of people in all these transaction. May be some people become a part of daily life and others forgotten or separated. These experience of life can be hard, frictional or something that change us forever in great ways and opposite.
Despite fear of getting hurt and failing in person to person relationships, I strongly believe in it.
I think Isabelle is one of the most observant and deeply sensitive person i know. We don't see it immediately, as her sensitivity is often hidden in her thoughts. Isabelle is often thinking, sometimes when she is walking, she can walk in front of you but not see you. But when you she sees you, she deeply listens and speaks to you with attentiveness. This quality of deep observation and sensitivity is present in her writing. Her words are clear, patient and very present that floats. She is not the type of person who can do looking and thinking at the same time.She takes in the present and live then think.
This book combat is about our life. Our life between Isabelle and I, Iannis and Kai, her writing, and my art work... our link , our friendship, our dialog and our experience that is universal yet intimate.
It is reality and fiction that jumps between light, the joy of opening a world to one another and to share who we are...to others in France, people in Japan and the rest of the world.
I value actions of all kinds but mostly this kind of action that is shared, intimate and personal that opens up to the world.
I am seeing that this is what is needed in our present world, if we want to continue to live together on this earth.
Merci Isabelle!.. and without Pascal, the editor of the book, it was not possible. This book will officially be out in June 17th and will be sold at book stores... but you can also order directly from the site of the edition. Merci Pascal.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Help team for Japan に参加します。
今週の土曜日にHelp team for Japanに参加します。
今回の参加は６枚のポラロイドとHelp team JapanからSoatに送る魚募金を続ける予定です。
Thursday, April 28, 2011
finally branly
Fred Jimenez, the silk screen teacher who have been my main collaborator during the residency from autumn 2009 till mid summer 2010, at lycées edouard branly, Châtellerault have finally made it! This is a semi-permanent installation that will be presented in May 12, 2011.
This project was hard and I like to congratulate Fred for his constant presence, insistence, effort and work.
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