diary.j16

page16 August, 2001 HOME 2001

Fri.31st.Aug. "Iwate Sculpture Symposium-Last Supper"
	Futa and Kizuki, Maki Iwamura came to spend the day while Toshi Iwamura cleared the sympoisum site of all his tools, before coming back for supper. They all stayed the night. So although we missed most of the sculpture symposium as we were in Scotland we had a chance to catch up with these old friends before they left for the long drive home the next morning. (KT)

Thu.30th Aug. "Iwate Sculpture Symposium Farewell Party"


Mayor and the sculptors for the speeches	Fujimura's arm wrestling with Sean in the middle of the 'formal' reception for the end of the Iwate town SculptureSympsoium - it was Fujimura's idea!	And the real party starts! I had to leave them all too it to take Emily and Sean and me home to bed. (KT)

Mon.27th.August, "Akechi"
	Akechi helping Kata put the final touches on his water feature sculpture in the new Caesar Pelli building in Tokyo.

Senko Hanabi - the Japanese equivalent of sparklers .

Sat.25th.August, "Ukishima BBQ Party for the Iwate Stone sculpture Symposium"


Sean helping light the BBQ	Rain does not stop a party here!	3 of the Ukishima angels helping make the fruit salad
		The artist in whose honour the party was being held were busy working til 9pm by which time a feast was ready.
The artists finally arrived after work

Tue.21st.August, "Sean going to Kindergarten"
	Sean decided to go to Kindergarten today. We thought he should take a few days off to get recover from jet lag. But obviously he missed his friends. (HK)

Mon.20th.August, "Visit to the Iwate Sculpture Symposium and picking up Cinnamon"


Iwamura opening the 20t stone.	The audience.	split.	Mr. and Mrs. Sasawatari, Cinamon's step parents

Sun.19th.August, Kate, Emily and Sean back in Japan, & "Takafumi's Birthday"


Happy birthday Takafumi!	Masatoshi, Takafumi and Emily	Japanese 'bayblade'!!

Left Ukishima to Sendai in my beautifully polished Toyota, andwent on to Narita. Arrived 6 am in the morning and picked up my family and drove back to Ukishima via Sendai. At my parents house in Sendai, Yukiko organised her second son's 5th birthday party.(HK)

Sat.18th.August, "Car Wash"
	Washin' and go. Even Waxed. This may be the 3rd time since I bought this car... (HK)

Sat.11th.August, "Glass cutting"
	Back in Ukishima with my father after a month in Scotland. What welcomed us was, of course, overgrown grass!! Spent a whole day cutting them.(HK)

Wed.8th.August, "French Circus" in Edinburgh
	Circus in town! the children, ann chan and both of us thouroughly enjoyed a night in the big top on the Meadows. (HK)

Wed.8th.August, "British Telecom Art Project in Edinburgh"
	Dolly Dean showed us one of the art projects she has co-ordinated with her public art commissioning ageny PACE. This is her prize winning project for BT headquarters in Edinburgh. (HK) You cannot see the art works in this photograph (this one is transluscent), but it is well worth seeing if you are ever in Edinburgh. (KT)

Tue.7th.August,"Robyn"
	Sean, Emily and cousin Robyn. (HK)

Mon.6th.August,"Edinburgh Festival Fringe"


	space cowboy street performer sword swallowing!

Jan, Kate and Emily	Jan & Kate on the fringe 20years ago...

My friend Jan came to stay the night in Edinburgh. We all went in to the High Street to see the street performers and Jan and I realised that we last performed together 20 years ago in the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe with the Newcastle Universtiy Dance Company we set up. Kata insisted on putting these rather inelegant photos up on the diary - we were not bad, in fact the first reviews I had in the Scottish newspapers were for dancing not sculpture! Wonderful to see Jan again, who is still dancing professionally but mainly running a dance education project in the Midlands, and to hear about her years developing her dancing techniques in Amsterdam and Brazil. (KT)

Sun. 5th. August,"Stonehaven"

On the way back from the show opening in Aberdeen, we stopped in Stonehaven, where we were invited to the lunch by a family living near the sea who were at my opening yesterday.
Breathtaking view. They want to create a kind of sculpture walk along the coast, they told us. (HK)
Emily and Sean had a wonderful time with peacocks, dogs, and horses to play with as well as the wonderful beach, thank you Moya, Claire and Natalie. (KT)

Sat.4th.August, "Emma and Craig"
	Emma and her family. Emily, Sean and Ann stayed with them in Aberdeen. Sean and Emily were hooked on to Oliver's games (HK) Many thanks to my cousins Emma & Oliver, and Craig who looked after Emily and Sean while we were enjoying Kata`s exhibition talk and opening today. The opening went very well - several people said they had never seen so many vistors for a talk or an opening at Peacock before, but we were so busy talking to many old friends, and meeting new people, that we forgot to take any photos! Then Kata and I went to stay with Lisa and Peter and enjoyed a very good bottle of champagne for Peter`s birthday. (KT)

Friday,3rd.August,"Peacock exhibition is ready"


Xander and I	Eden loading sculptures into Van	gallery 1- view 1	gallery 1- view 2, no photograph of gallery 2 -sorry!

Yesterday we were honoured with a visit by the new Japanese Consul Gerneral from Edinburgh. Admin. work, Kate plotting with Chris for how to achieve a Japanese/Scottish architects forum at SSW next year. And then a wonderful evening with Rod Scott and his family, old friends of Kate's family.

Today - setting my big piece in Gallery (HK). We finally finished at 9pm when Lindsay came back to lock up and looked extremely relieved that the chinese puzzle of stone blocks had actually become a sculpture. Xander was a star, we could never have done it without him! (KT)

Wednesday, 1st.August,"Iron casting day"/Exhibition setting/sushi party


George with the kiln	Eden and George	melted in 20mins	casting

Today the students are casting their work into iron.

Kata and I watched the first iron pour of the students` work at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop before dashing off with the first load of Kata`s sculpture to be installed at Peacock visual arts Gallery. Where we discovered to our relief that it was just possible to get the van through the archway to the venue with 1.5cm to spare overall.	Sushi Factory	- Having negotiated several 'Harry Potter" style manoeuvers with the van we raced back to SSW where we had promised a sushi dinner to the hard working students as Kata knew this would be his last evening with them before his exhibition opening. They had all skipped lunch in anticipation of the feast and hunger inspired all hands to the decks.
	Possibly the clearest illustration of the multicultural exchange which is a major goal of Kata`s residency and exhibition as part of Japan 2001 -all the Japanese food prepared by several nationalities was finished in 30 minutes!	Then on to the "Lumsden Arms" for a night cap. Bob said that as soon as he saw Kata and me walk in he knew it was going to be a lock in! Kata and I met in this bar in the wilds of north east Scotland 13 years ago, so Brenda and Willie were pleased to see us back, and I even ended up as a barmaid (haven`t done that since I was a student) (KT)

Brenda and WIllie	Kate, Bob, me, Dan and? (HK)	Kate, Willy and Davie (one of the few locals we knew 13 years ago who is still alive)