July 26th, 2008 — Art
The nylon taffeta is beginning to accumulate in the apartment as I begin a new inflatable project. The yellow is soothing compared to the bright red that I used for Big Red. The fabric has a creamy texture and feel. This project will be displayed at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of [...]
July 25th, 2008 — Nagoya
Buying thread from a retail store becomes quite expensive when using thousands of meters. Before I discovered a company in Nagoya called, Ozeki (オゼキ), I made this costly mistake many times. At a retail store one hundred meters of thread costs about 230 yen, but at Ozeki, a thread distributor, three thousand meters [...]
May 5th, 2008 — Nagoya
Currently I am cutting pattern pieces for the large inflatable installation that I will exhibit at the Laredo Center for the Arts this July. All the sewing is done in my apartment and takes up a lot of space. I estimatedd that it takes about 23 minutes to sew one tube minus the time [...]