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Mums, apple branches, green material and a rusted mass of metal springs in a ceramic container on a ceramic tile. Arrangement at the North Portland library on Killingsworth. The arrangements are installed weekly Sunday mornings and are up until Tuesday or Thursday depending on how the material lasts.

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Black sand, crumbled dried maple leaves on moss covered lumber. Arrangement for Aki Matsuri festival and Saga Goyru Ikebana show at 2634 se 12 in Portland Oregon. November 4th and 5th from 10am to 4pm.

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Tomato branches, dried hostas, dried sunflowers and pampas grass in the mouth of a glass jar, creating a morimono arrangement.

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Flax, orchids and dried hydrangeas in a ceramic containers on glass tiles.

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Morimono with tomato, sunflower and corn silk in a ceramic container.

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Orchids and ferns in a ceramic container.

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Peony leaves, hostas, iris leaves and a black eyed susan in a bamboo container.

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#finishedbooks Japanese Expanded Cinema Revisited. Got this in my press packet for the exhibition going on now at TOP museum till mid October. Reviewed this for Tokyoartbeat, so going to go on a tangent here. Expanded cinema was to be apart of the avant garde that flourished going into the 60s and in film I always associated the avant garde with the films of Hiroshi Teshigahara (Shinoda, etc) like Woman in the Dunes that became apart of world cinema. It was said, he and like minded artists Abe Kobo, Teryama Shuji, etc used to hang out at the sogetsu kaikan exchanging ideas and hosting other avant garde artists. Was curious if this was at all related to the Expanded Cinema movement when I went to the show and come to find out Sogetsu (within the kaikan) had the Sogetsu Art Center from 1959 that showcased everything from theatre to jazz and played a large role hosting most of the events of the Expanded Cinema movement. Sadly it ended in 1971 and I find it frustrating. I got into ikebana through seeing the avant garde works of hiroshi teshigahara and after studying ikebana for nearly a decade have been slightly jaded with how conservative in actuality it is. There aren’t any new opportunities or programs like this at the kaikan and everything is so money oriented…so was really cool to actually see the arts they promoted in their heyday.