This weekend, after visiting Fuji-San, I returned to Tokyo for
Design Festa, the largest art exhibition in Asia. It is organized by the
Design Festa Gallery, an international gallery in Harajuku, Tokyo. It has somewhere over 6,000 exhibitors with live music, fashion shows, performance arts, fine art etc. Everything about the event was amazing. The building,
Tokyo Big Sight, was a work of art on its own:
Inside I found an enormous creative energy and stimulation like I have never seen. Thousands of art fans, thousands of artists and hundreds of thousands of works of art of all sorts. I could have stayed there for a year. Words can do the event no justice.
4 comments:
Hi Pete
Juliette and Scarlett and Jack Say hello!!!
We're living in Austin Texas right now, will be for the rest of the summer
Travel safe - Looking forward to hear more for you journey
We're very sorry beer is so expensive
crappy
-J & J & S
Hey pete,
What is coming out of the baby sumo's nose? looks like one major booger!
Have fun and eat some sushi for me.
Joe
The booger thing is what the Japanese use to indicate sleeping in comic books and symbolism- it is supposed to be a sort of air bubble. The exhibitor had other sculptural works made out of masses of heads with sleepy-nose-bubble things. My interpretation is that it was supposed to represent the "sleeping" or unconscious masses, i.e. mass consumerism, mass thought, etc. Think "Brave New World", "1984", or my personal favorite, John Carpenter's "They Live".
I like how you reference "They Live."
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