| Friday 17th October first snow of the year |
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Woke up to find the mountain Iwate san capped with snow. Thought autumn had just started with the tree all turning gorgeous reds, yellows and golds. (KT) |
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| Thursday 16th October |
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Yesterday Tamaki san arrived from Nagoya as the 4th assistant to join the station front project. Beginning to feel the stress of looming deadlines with the 8m monument, ad 4 pocket parks to be set in a month's time.
So we have been searching the land for good stone carvers to help. Kata's teacher Yokosawa san was loath to let Tamaki go from helping him, but took pity on us!
Thought Tamaki san would be helping with the main monument, but he ended up being delegated to help Akechi - cutting the bottom of the Kamoshika's boulder base as a warm up. Now that Akechi has 2 assistants he finally started cutting stone himself - carving the rabbit. (KT)
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Lunch boxes from the Hokka Hokka Te shop every day. |
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I bought a Boerer chipping air hammer from Austria for this project. This is the most amazing, funtastic maschine I ever worked with. Powerfull and tough! In Lindabrunn Symposium This is the main tool to make any shape. Heavy and expensive as well. (HK) |
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| Wednesady15th October |
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For the sake of the Art Road project we are giving our Ukishima Sculpture Studio entrance stone for Akechi's rabbit to sit atop at the entrance to the ishigami no Oka Sculpture park |
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All the assistants are staying in the iwate town symposium house where they take it in turns to cook for themselves. But every Wednesday and Friday evenings we all eat together at Ukishima. This evening Kata's mother (who is visiting from Sendai to help out) made delicious 'sukiyaki' (kind of meat and veg stew) for everyone.
Koke san still refuses to stay iin the symposium house and drives to and from his own place every day, but seems to have got used to us all and stayed on after work to eat. (KT)
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| Tuesday 14th October |
| I went to the new library working site in Nango town for next sculpture project in summer 2004.(HK) |
| Monday 13th October, Kurasawa Ballet Circle |
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Emily's ballet teacher (in the foreground) was performing in Morioka.
Today is a national holiday, so Emily had the day off school and I took a day off from working on my endangered species to take emily into the city for the show, and lunch in town.
It turned out to be mostly small children dancing, so Emily, who was getting bored, started playing with the digital camera as well as her binoculars. By the time her teacher came on she had worked out that she could use the binoculars as a zoom in front of the camera lense and get this close up shot.
Meanwhile everyone else was slaving away at Ukishiima in the rain! But I later discovered they had gone out for sushi lunch to make up for it. (KT)
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| Saturday 11th October |
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We brought more stone from factory today and ew have one more assistant, Koke from Morioka. he is making figurative stone sculptures and does very fine work.(HK) |
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| Tuesday 7th October |
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Sean and Emily have now proper Kendo kimonos. Two little Samurais in Ukishima!!(HK) |
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We moved our stone from Kanazawa's factory for more air! Their compressor was little bit too small for our working tools.(HK) |
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| Monday 6th October |
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I got still sore back! Kazue and Mashita were working at Kanazawa 's factory. (HK) |
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| Sunday 5th October, Iwate Red Data Book |
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Wild life is the theme of the sculpture Kate is going to make along Art Road project. There is a book called "Iwate Red Data Book" which listed the rare and in danger of being extinction wild animals. kate has little photographic informations about them because they are so rare to find anymore. Emily is now trying to help Kate to make little macquettes in the studio. (HK) |
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| Saturday 4th October, Numakunai Autumn Festival |
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The season of autumn festivals in Japan now. Kate went out with children, but I was in bed.(HK) |
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| Saturday 4th October, |
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Autumn started. Colours are getting rich and today we had a very clear and beautifll rainbow in OUR garden! This morning I suddenly got back pain and I coud not do anythig since apart from laying in bed...(HK) |
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| Friday 3rd October, Kate's Birthday |
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| Emily , Sean and I made a very tasty special curry rice for supper. Mashita and Akechi joined our birthday party.(HK) |
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| Thursday 2nd October, |
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Yesterday Mashita came to help us. We brought Akechi's stone into factory to et cut. My stone still did not arrived from stone quarry, because they coud not find good block without crack for that big size. Still waiting. (HK) |
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| Wedensday 1st October, "Battle Accell" |
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One of the new maschine of the "Battle Accell" does not seem to be working very well. After I asked konami customer service thy kindly suggested I should send this back to get repaired properly, which I have done.(HK) |
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