MadPaule

My daily Photo/Art blog. Illustrator | Photographer | Manipulator New Delhi, India.

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Happy Together

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Tsukuba Art Center - Arrival

The journey and the art process starts as soon you step out and start executing in your head and much before you start executing it with materials. Then it may take 2 hrs, two days, two months or even twenty years. Sometimes that processing and the process become more important and interesting than the execution. It is very important to absorb the environment so that you can extract the context and find the right subject and then justify, not to anyone else but at least to yourself.

Documenting for me is a not a linear mechanical process. I like emotions, textures and the right aesthetic. Isolating the subject entirely kills the context for me. It lacks the stories, character and gives you a superficial image of the social environment. And yet i like my documentation to stand interdependently with a unique identity and individuality.

Nature based Artist from different countries were Invited by Tsukuba Art Center to be the  residents at Tsukuba Mountains, Ibaraki, Japan, with directional support from Mr Takashi Ikezawa ( Curator/Director ), Ms Mitsuko Shinohara ( Producer ) and Mr Masaru Yamada (Technical Director), they created art works during this time using the most of the material and inspiration from the mountain itself. This is the documentation of what was seen and what was felt, what was observed and absorbed. This is my art.

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Explorations

Days went by doing the site exploration for the artwork and feeling the place.

It seems Agnes has marked her territory. But everyone is Welcome.

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Textures of Tsukuba

A place which instantly inspired to work and fell good. So much positive energy of the calmness and harmony of colors. With abundance of Flora and fauna, you can not close your eyes to the beauty. They get sketched into your mind as field notes.

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Living at  Fureaino Sato

We stayed in these beautiful, Japanese style wooden cottages at Fureaino Sato. It is a popular picnic place during the weekends for the people who wish to Trek the mountain and people who enjoy Bar-be-Que with family and friends.  

Mornings...

...and nights.

One thing which was common was Delicious food prepared by Shinohara san.. Sometimes artists took turns in preparing food to add different flavors. 

Takashi San and Shinohara San

Ahem. Post lunch break with Chris.

Map for trekking Mount Tsukuba.

Beware of Mamushi ( Japanese Pit Viper ). I wasn't lucky enough to encounter it.

Hetty in a Vintage Kimono.

Miyamoto San - The Bar-be-que man.

Nights were different. Chirpy, musical and a total contrast to the calm mornings. But still the best of the characters and stories would come out at night.

One Woman Army - Ms Mitsuko Shinohara

Mr Takashi - The man who kept the fire on and made it all Possible.

Back to work and calm mornings with Valeria

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Going to the Bamboo forest

All of us drove to the nearby forest to collect Bamboo, the prime material for most of the artists, which gave us the first glimpse of the Tsukuba Landscape and life.

Ushio San driving us to the bamboo forest. 

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And we arrived at the Bamboo forest.

Tzvetelina sweating it out.

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People of Tsukuba

One of the highlights of my stay at Tsukuba was my collaboration with Italian performance Artist  Valeria Codara. She used a symbol of a stone to connect with People who were strangers. In the process we met and interacted with lot of people who shared stories and invited us with open arms.

Ayame Iizumi, an artist based in Tsukuba who helped us out meeting the people in Tsukuba. Her house is almost 300 yrs old. 

Ayame with her Brother and Little house of god on the right.

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One of the many Gems in Tsukuba is the Miyasei-Okura. It is not only a concert hall for musicians but a small museum in Itself with rare Antiques.

Another beautiful Old house which hosts concerts and plays.

Going back to the cottages.

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Following the Procession to Tsukuba Shrine

Franziska following the Procession. 

The Procession to Tsukuba-san-jinja

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Tsukuba-san-jinja

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Work in progress. Forever.

Eventually everything burns out or transforms. The living perishes, Life continues. Just like life life continues after a jungle fire.

Love the precision with which Shilpa works with clear concepts.

Kaichin hitting a higher note.

LEE KUEI CHI working on his moon nest .

USHIO SAKUSABE, man of few words but there is a strong gravitational pull in his work.

Chris and Kachin (Taking some bamboo splitting lessons).

Final touches? Not yet. Agnes wondering how much more to add.

1000 bamboos. Not enough for Daisaku.

Daisaku Uno’s Slide Tea room

Extract from Franziska Fennert’s - Extended social systems.

Kazuyuki Miyamoto’s concept - Today, I am alive. Some people sleep.

Hetty de Boer-Blonk’s Passers-by

Tzvetelina Maximova’s Swirl Game

Agnes Peter’s Eternal Flow

Kaichin Chang’s Borrow the light

Ushio Sakusabe’s Hoisting stones

Shilpa Joglekar’s Chakra ( The Spiral ), Becoming one with surroundings.

From left to right : Valeria Codara (Italy), Agnes Peter (Hungary), Shilpa Joglekar (India), Lee Kuei Chih (Taiwan), Franziska Fennert (Indonesia / Germany), Hetty de Boer-Blonk  (Netherlands), Ushio Sakusabe (Japan), Daisaku Ueno (Japan), Kaichin Chang (China), Tzvetelina Maximova  (Bulgaria), Mitsuko Shinohara (Our Producer-Japan), Kazuyuki Miyamoto (Japan), Takashi Ikezawa (Curator/ Director Tsukuba Art Center,Japan) and Me - Mad Paule (India)

Saying goodbye and thanks with my work - Origin of Species.

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Fertellendeweis

Right across the lush green Park Viversburg (despite having the worst heat wave in decades), 22 artists including the team leaders from different parts of the world got together at Yn’e Mande to rewrite and interpret the story of 170 refugees who travelled from Tiel to Tytsjerk. Tytsjerk is a village in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. This happened in 1944 during the world war 2, and now there are very few mouths left to tell the stories about the hospitality extended by the people of Tytsjerk who welcomed the refugees with open hands to their homes. Since then many stories which have passed from one generation to another and many stories are yet to be unravelled.

Taking inspirations from the stories, The artists along with each other created works in form of Images, installations and performances. In the end it all came together as a beautiful poetry diminishing the line between stories and fables. They all became individual storytellers.

This is the Documentation of the International Artcamp Tytsjerk - Fertellendeweis

Artists gathered to listen to Ms Giny’s stories

Meditation session in the evening with Image artist Tami.