| Monday 31st July, "Invitation by Dr. Sawatari" |
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| Sunday 27th July, "Opening party" |
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| Sunday 28th July, "Party with Symposium Committee" |
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| Saturday 27th July, "Stone Curving Class" |
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| Friday 26th July, "Summer Holliday" |
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| Thursday 25th July, "Sprit" |
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| Wedensday 24th July, "Emily and Sean 's Visit" |
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| Wedensday 23rd July, "Symposium and Atago Festival" |
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| Tuesday 22nd July, "ISS 2003 progrress report" |
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| Sunday 20th July, "kesennuma!" |
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Day off. Grand day out. We drove to Kesennuma by the pacific ocean. Kazue Sato, who is also helping us this time has the show at Rias Ark Museum in Kesennuma. beautifull iron works traps all sorts of findings along the beach and huge baskets.(HK) |
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Sushi! is the most famous menu here. My cousin introduced me the best restaurant in town. |
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Frozen iced fish aqarium. Funtastic Idea!! |
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at the Rias Shark Museum. |
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Walking along the seaside. |
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| Saturday 19th July, "ISS 2003 progrress report" |
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John started chopping up chestnut wood and we Todor, Mashita and me startedtaking drill marks off from the surface by cutting. (HK) |
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| Friday 18th July, "ISS 2003 progrress report" |
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Trying put them back again but distanced. (HK) |
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| Wedensday 16th July, "ISS 2003 progrress report" |
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Discussions again. Now we have all stones prepared. Our concept of the sculpture is to put them together back in the park to express the energy of the stone and create different spaces between. (HK) |
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Splitted more. |
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| Tuesday 15th July, "ISS 2003 progrress report" |
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Transporting splitted stones to workshop in town. We had six large trucks to carry 71tons of stones! (HK) |
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| Monday 14th July, "ISS 2003 progrress report" |
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Splitted very well.(HK) |
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| Sunday 13th July, "ISS 2003 progrress report" |
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John is not just standing and taking rest. He is working. Todrill such a large rock straight, we alway need somebody to adjust the vertical lines. (HK) |
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| Sunday 13th July, "piano Concert " |
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| Childrens Piano concert at Himegami Hall next town. |
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| Saturday 12th July, "keep Spritting Stone - ISS 2003 progrress report " |
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Ms.Fujimura joined us today to film the progress of the Symposium. Everybody's working three times harder than yesterday! Good camera...(HK) |
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| Friday 11th July, "Attitude Changed" |
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Look! Great improvement of the relationship between Cinnamon and Bobby. (HK) |
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wedgeing the stone. |
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| thursday 10th July, "Sprit Stone - ISS 2003 report" |
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Stine has a lot of bad cracks. We decided to try to splita large boulder. See how it goes. Drilling in the mountains.(HK) |
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| Monday 7th July, "looking for Stone - ISS 2003 report" |
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Nice monday morning. we went to the mountain side to take alook at material again. We have to work along what the stone can offer? (HK) |
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| Sunday 6th July, "Packing up Kate's Show by Symposium" |
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Heavy raining from the morning. We symposium group decidedto go and see Frank Stella show and Kate exhibition in Morioka. We also ended up helping packing up Kate's show. She sooked for us. (HK) |
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| Saturday 5th July, "30th Anniversary Celemony for Iwate Symposium " |
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The ceremony of the 30th anniversary was held at the Ishigami no Oka Museum, and we had lecture by Fram Kitagawa, Director of Art Front Gallery in Daikanyama and General director of Art Triennale in Tsumari, Niigata. He gave urs a talk about this gigantic art project in Japan, and very impressive. He saying," comtemporary art in the society like this project might just be a camphor injection, but also Vitamines to keep conditions for the people." Agree! (HK) |
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Kate's friend Isabel came to visit Iwate with her husband. They enjoyed a lecture, party and staying at Kikuchi Farm guest house alone. (HK) |
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| Friday 4th July, "Symposium Started " |
| 30th International Iwae Sculpture Symposiumstarted this morning with the Orientation at the town office. We also went to look around the workshop, stone quarry and woodyard. I feel this time we have ideal members for collaboration. John Audun Hauge from Norway, Todor Todorov from Burgaria, Kenichi Mashita from Nagoya and me. I will try my best and really hope to create good piece of sculpture.(HK) |
| Thursday 3rd July, "Iwate Internationa Sculpture Symposium" |
| John Audun Hauge has arrived in town from Norway . I invited him specialy for the wood work this time. We met after 18 years since the Aberdeen International Youth Symposium at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden. We became rather middle aged! Strange!! I remember he was funtasic with handling any wood. this time in Symposium we have chestnut wood to combone with granite. Collaboration again. (HK) |
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| Tuesday 1st July, "Sculpture For An Restaurant in Roppongi Hills Completed" |
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We arrived in Tokyo and unloaded at 4 in the morning. Setting Sculptures with help of 6 other proffesionals after lunch and took us over 2 hours! Restaurant is alreay finished, so no scratches! Soon we (Akechi and me) drove bak to Iwate before midnight. It was a long day! (HK) |
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