For the Grandmas: Part II.
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005Cleaning the floor at school and making ink paintings.
Archive for December, 2005
For the Grandmas: Part I.
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005Some pics I got back from my son’s school. Now he’s on break until April! One is of mochi making day, the other of lunchtime.
Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan: A Great Book
Thursday, December 22nd, 2005This is the first book-length work in English I’ve found to comprehensively explain Wajin-Ainu power relations: Siddle, Richard. (1996). Race, Resistance, and the Ainu of Japan. London: Routledge. And what a book! It details the complexities and contradictory historical records about the Wajin conquest of Hokkaido and the impact on the Ainu, who are Hokkaido’s […]
And October’s gone
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005Wanted to post this pic of my son at school, before the landscape put on its winter woolies. It amazes me how nature changes so intensely here…now we have entered into that place of whiteness and serenity for the next four months…
A Poet Outside: Santoka
Monday, December 12th, 2005Painting by me, 2002. I wish to devote this entry to a poet I consider my soulmate (of another time, plane and place), the free-style haiku poet, Taneda Santoka (1882-1940). The ‘o’ in his name is a long ‘o’, like how Minnesotans say ‘o.’ I first found out about him over 10 years ago when […]
Outsider art, partII
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005Same artist as below.
Outsider art, partI
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005As some of you know, I am a big fan of art brut and outsider art, which to me means any art that comes deep from the heart and had to be done for the maker, and such art doesn’t follow the rules of academic art schools. It is not about money, or approval, or […]