The postcards are finally done. This is actually happening! Throughout this year, I will be presenting month-long site specific installations (sculptural and video) at Shofuso Japanese House and Garden in Fairmount Park. As their first Artist In Residence, this is a perfect opportunity to express all the potential of combining contemporary artistic objects into a heretofore traditional environment. Come see and share your thoughts. Lets make Shofuso a place of constant artistic/historical interpretation. Lets keep it alive and vital and relevant as a philadelphia landmark. Scratch that....as a US landmark!!
COLOS is a noun and a verb.
Schedule:
March 31-April 29 – Shofuso Views exhibition. Loosely inspired by Hokusai's 36 Views of Mt. Fuji, this series of instant photographs captures both intimate and broad details, creating a spanning
portrait of Shofuso as both a concrete reality and dream-like space. Free at Shofuso’s Sakura
Pavilion weekends in April from 11am-4pm.
May 5-July 1 – The Way Home installation Within this 7-panel folding screen, or byoubu, west
and east synthesize. The byoubu flanks initial entry in to the house, confronting and enrapturing
visitors with a vibrant, colorful display in Shofuso's early summer foliage.
July 5-15 – Monsters in Sacred Spaces installation. This video installation challenges the
pervading atmosphere of reverence, serenity, and untouchability in the Shofuso experience.
A collage video piece depicts scenes from films in which sacred, traditional, and old-world
structures are the brunt or host of destruction.
August 1 – Shades of Truth installation. Shofuso's multicolor gravel which lines the entrance
pathway will be rearranged into gradients of light-to-dark. This piece taps into the concept of
historical interpretation and the idea that Shofuso, as well as all "historical" representations;
contain shades of truth and fact rather than pure truth and fact.
September 5-16 – 575 Haiku installation. This exhibit draws heavily on the strict haiku form as a
means to draft a color-based narrative about Shofuso, centered on tea ceremony.
October 4-28 – The Way Home installation. With this 7-panel folding screen, or byoubu, the
vibrant, colorful installation will be reinterpreted in autumn foliage.
November 10 & 11 and 17 & 18 – Hanafubuki installation and tea service. Recreating the
experience of hanafubuki or cherry blossom snow, visible from afar. Shofuso will be open on
Saturday and Sunday for limited hours in November and will feature hot cups of matcha, or
green tea, stirred with milk, creating an intimate cherry blossom viewing with a chill.
