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OH NOooo!

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:47:42 +0000

Finally my photographs came back from the printing and mounting company. I opened the box and found out that the hanging bars on all the photographs fell off….. How am I supposed to hang them??? And the mounting job was poorly done….

It will be a battle tomorrow talking to this company. Wish me luck….

The exhibition still opens this Friday though.

Getting ready for the exhibition

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:44:05 +0000

My Roswell show is coming up next month (opens on November 21st at Roswell Museum of Art) and I am getting ready for it. We have just made a trip to Albuquerque to pick up some plexi for framing and now Jimmy is slaving away to make frames for me. Thank you!! The show title will be “Secret Tribe of Hubbits” and it is all about my imagination of secret creatures. Right now I am waiting for my photographs to come back printed and mounted. I have never sent out my prints, so I am a bit worried about how they willcome back. They will be here next week and hopefully they will look great. Images of the new work will be up on my site shortly after my exhibition.

Jimmy working with our new plainer

so many bullet shells

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:10:46 +0000

shot gun shell

Roswell is pretty and I am loving it, but there are some things here that make you feel that you are in the wild west. If you drive a couple of miles out of Roswell, you will see a whole lot of nothing. And in this “nothing land”, people go out and practice shooting. The bad thing about this is that I am shooting my photographs (not guns) in these fields, and I heard so many gun shots pretty close to me. Right now, my project is about these evolved bunnies living secretly in the lands of New Mexico, and I dress up like bunny to do my photo shooting. So, for them, I am a really good hunting target to shoot. Anyway, I found many empty shells on the ground and started to collect them. 22, Winchester 270, 726, 30-30, shotgun shells, etc. All kinds of them. Coming from Japan, possessing of gun still startles me and I am not appreciating it at all, but I found the shells to be beautiful objects. I am using these to make one of the tools that the bunnies use. I am not telling you what exactly I am making. You will see it in the exhibition in November in Roswell Museum of Art. (I think).

Unidentified flying object??

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:49:53 +0000

moon rising over Comanche hill

Jimmy is finally here in Roswell. He got here on 15th and since then I have been taking him around Roswell to show him the pretty spots. His first day here, we went to Bitter Lake wildlife refuge (7 miles away from the residency compound). It was just before the sunset, and the sky was turning into a pink orange and the moon was rising over Comanche Hill, which was definitely a Kodak moment.

We drove the path around Bitter Lake and parked the car to have a better look at evening sky and we found this thing. It was a very big shiny object, much bigger and brighter than star and moving slowly across the sky. First, it was bright white light and started to turn to orangish color. Definitely it was reflecting the sunlight. What was it??? A satellite? No it was too big and too close to the earth’s surface. A weather balloon?? It could be. UFO?? That would be really cool. Well, later we found out that it was a weather balloon flying over the Roswell sky. I still haven’t seen UFO yet here in Roswell but this was something close. Weather balloon, that’s what people always say, right?

weather balloon

Trip to Sitting Bull Falls

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:11:35 +0000

I went to Sitting Bull Falls in Lincoln National Forest to research the next location for photo shooting. Sitting Bull Falls is located about 50 minutes from downtown Carlsbad, NM. Byron, with the National Forest Services, showed me some spots with incredible views. After driving on bumpy roads, we hiked down to one of the caves he knew. The cave has a huge entrance which looks like a big mouth trying to swallow whatever comes in, which gave me goose bumps. But inside the cave is amazingly beautiful, decorated with incredible formations. After this, we hiked the area above the sitting bull falls.

New Mexico is a very dry state, but this park has so much water coming from underground, and it is incredibly clear water. Actually you can go swimming in the pool at the bottom of the falls, and you see so many fish in the pool. Very cold water though… (around 67F?). I have done a photo shoot at the falls, and the image will be included in my next exhibition at the Roswell Museum of Art.

Anyway, I couldn’t find a location for photo shooting this time, but it was a good hike and a good break.