概要
概要
概要
To tie, to connect.
Mai Sone
Concept
A split weave thread that is tied and connected in a uchiwa. Weave clothes that someone no longer wears by connecting them to a piece of Uchiwa. Gradually the wind blows and connects with someone in the distance and someone near.
Process
1. Tear the clothes you no longer wear and make a tear-weave string.
2. Roll the string and wind the thread.
3. Knit a split weave on the Uchiwa.
4. Write a message to the next person.
5. Complete with 2 to 3 people in one piece.
6. When completed, connect it with other Uchiwa and display it.
Where to participate
Program details
Number of participants
4 persons per turn
Duration
30 minutes per person
How to participate
Preparation: Nothing in particular is needed to participate in the workshop.
The work completed during the workshop will be
exhibited in the Chashitsu; it will not be returned to the participants.
Requests and cautions for visitors
*Please do not touch objects hung in the Chashitsu.
*Your cooperation NOT to speak loudly will be highly appreciated.
* The structures of bamboo chashitsu may be fragile and the visitors are asked not to force them to move by hanging or leaning.
Timetable
Visitors can join the workshop during the exhibition period.
The Artist may not be present at the workshop point.
Artist is present on the following dates:
July 23-24-25-28-31, and August 1-8-9
* The date July 29, August 5-7 previously informed turned out to be absent.
* Details of each program may be subject to change without notice. In addition, the event at this venue may be canceled if a state of emergency or restrictions on the holding of events is announced by the government or prefectural authorities.
* In order to avoid close contact, we are limiting the number of people who can enter the exhibition. For this reason you may have to wait when crowded.
About the Artist
Mai Sone
Born in 1993 in Shizuoka. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts with a Master's Degree. During her trip across the Latin America in 2016, she had been attracted by its culture and people who live with colorful native dress woven by ingenious hands in Guatemala, which made her decide to relocate herself to Guatemala and take lessons of woven fabrics and textile dyeing from indigenous people of Maya for the following year. This experience made Sone explores a form of art using the yarn of woven fabrics as a tool to connect people. Currently she lives and works in Japan, and travels sometimes.
See the past activities for TURN project by the Artist: Mai Sone