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Jul. 17th, 2008 08:25 pmWell, that was moderately awesome.
Been kind of shut-in for the past few days, packing and sorting and doing paperwork as usual. But today my studio director was called in for a last-minute sumi-e demo at this museum exhibit of Japanese wood-block prints, and she called me in to play backup on origami. I picked up two books and a basketful of random paperwork I had scattered about, pulled together a Kawasaki rose, and went! Twenty minutes' prep and I was folding a rosebud and chattering away about geometry and organic forms in front of ten or fifteen people.
It IS nice to know I can still do that, just on-demand. I got out and met people and went through the print collection afterward - there were some really fantastic works in there. I was really captivated by one 1935 print that had a Japanese castle done in Western perspective through bunches of sakura rendered in Impressionistic style. Oh Japan, you do cultural absorption well.
Been kind of shut-in for the past few days, packing and sorting and doing paperwork as usual. But today my studio director was called in for a last-minute sumi-e demo at this museum exhibit of Japanese wood-block prints, and she called me in to play backup on origami. I picked up two books and a basketful of random paperwork I had scattered about, pulled together a Kawasaki rose, and went! Twenty minutes' prep and I was folding a rosebud and chattering away about geometry and organic forms in front of ten or fifteen people.
It IS nice to know I can still do that, just on-demand. I got out and met people and went through the print collection afterward - there were some really fantastic works in there. I was really captivated by one 1935 print that had a Japanese castle done in Western perspective through bunches of sakura rendered in Impressionistic style. Oh Japan, you do cultural absorption well.
