Ho Tam Press Gallery
Installation in progress.
Installation in progress.
Scanning through the Ikebana section of the university library I came upon this book: Rikka: The Soul of Japanese Flower Arrangement by Fugiwara Yuchiku The book speaks of the origins…
They haunted me for years before I could finally place them… small, darkly coloured, murky photographs of the night sky.
I was reading W.G. Sebald’s, The Rings of Saturn, and came across a passage where he speaks of two Persian friars who had brought the first eggs of the silkworm from China.
“you don’t have any ideas, you start making work without an idea, I always have an idea before I begin making a piece”
At present my studio is a building behind my house.
Part of my attraction to the work is that it could not survive, and now only exists in relatively few murky black and white photographs that I peer into in an attempt to reconstruct it in my mind.