Early in the morning George and I began to haual all the parts of my exhibition down the street towards Yamaguti Station(山口駅) as it began to rain. We had accepted the fact that we would be wet when a large white car pulled up driven by a middle aged woman who offered us a ride. I thought that the luggage would not fit but after much insistance we graciously accepted the ride and because of it made the next train to Nagoya in order to catch a bus to Kyoto.

After a long journey we finally made it to galerie weissraum. The canned food bar had a few patrons in it sipping on beers and eating SPAM with chopsticks. During installation it seemed that everything that could go wrong did. First the locking pin of the large fan had falled out in transit requiring the fan to be disassembled. After a mad dash to the hardware store in the rain I repaired the fan. The fuse connection of the battery charger for the inflatable suit “Big Red” also broke in transit. After some solder and a new fuse holder it too came back to life. Besides these hiccups the installation went smoothly and George and I had time to have a couple of beverages and wander ove to a ramen shop for dinner.

Of course the first day of the exhibition in Kyoto with an outdoor public performance scheduled brought rain. After all it is the beginning of the rainy season in Japan. But this morning a reporter from the Kyoto branch of chyunichi shinbun had an appointment to meet me for an interview and to see the performance.

Ashihara-san showed up on time and after a brief interview about the work I headed out to the Kaomo River to keep the performance on schedule despite the rate
June 7th

We stayed the night in Osaka Prefecture at Kawanaka’s home. Because of the early morning the next day and the long day George and I went to sleep very quickly.