After two pretty tiring weeks at work (and the upcoming one may also be along those lines), the best thing to do this past Sunday was to go spend the day to Ogijima. So we hoped on Meon at the first occasion and there we were. I have seen

  Yesterday, despite the rain, I got together with my friend Cathy Hirano and her friend Ando-san, to start our tour of some of the islands to see the preparations for the Setouchi Triennale which starts in almost a month.   Takamatsu Station plaza, on Monday morning, under the rain. Must

    Ladybug Onba by Yoshifumi Oshima at Onba Factory.    

  Preliminary note: a lot of people have been coming to this site lately looking for information about the various islands and art projects, most likely because they want to send their own application for the Setouchi Triennale 2013 (the deadline approaching not being stranger to this increasing number of

  On Sunday I took part in a pretty interesting workshop. If I understood correctly, it was organized by Archipelago and JEAN – Japan Environmental Action Network (as well as Ogi de Asobitai?) and led by Yoshifumi Oshima. It was about creating picture frames from various scraps and junk found

  Shortly after my arrival in Takamatsu, of course I had to take a small daytrip to Ogijima. Here is the tale of that day in pictures and a few comments:    The first good news of the day were that the original Meon was going to take us to

  Let me introduce you to Ao Oni-kun. One can poorly translate this into “Mr. Blue Oni.”     You most likely have already seen this statue if you’ve been to Takamatsu. It is a Oni and it is located right next to the Takamatsu Station in the Sunport. As

Here is the third (and last, at least until my next trip to Ogijima) installment of my short series of articles about the Onba Factory, my favorite art site from the Setouchi International Art Festival. In case you’ve missed them, you can find the first two parts there and there. For this

  Let’s continue our visit of the Onba Factory (オンバ・ファクトリー) with this second post. Of course, if you haven’t done so already, I warmly advise you to read the first post devoted to the topic and to watch the video of my interview with Yoshifumi Ōshima, Onba Factory‘s boss. That’s

If a few days ago I told you about Onba, it was not a random decision from my part. It was because for the next few days I am going to talk about Onba Factory (オンバ・ファクトリー). OK, I won’t beat around the bush, Onba Factory was my very favorite artwork