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Ryoko Aoki, 34 Meditations p20, 2018 Take Ninagawa Gallery
Ryoko Aoki "Rain Drops" 2009
The First Horse That Existed, by Ryoko Aoki, 2018
Ryoko Aoki
Pink and Orange, 2009
Ryoko Aoki Big Bang 2018 Watercolor on paper, resin 40.5 x 32 x 3.5 cm
Noriko Baba - Hagoromo Suite
La compositrice Noriko Baba : au miroir de la nostalgie
Tuesday, July 10th — HERE AND THERE HYACINTH REVOLUTION ISSUE
The printer called me on July 4, saying he could deliver some copies of Here and There vol. 13, which is titled “Hyacinth Revolution.” I was told it would arrive on July 6, so it was a good surprise.
Today is the day for bookshops to start selling the new issue. There was also a launch event at Utrecht Now Idea. I visited to see how the omikuji house had been installed for the accompanying exhibition. An omikuji is a fortune telling card one can usually find at temples.
I need to explain a little about the new issue: I asked almost 50 people to raise hyacinth bulbs at the beginning of the winter. I said I wanted them to present any works that came from this experience — photos or drawings or diaries or whatever — at the end of March. Some people said they could not participate because of personal reasons. In the end, 42 people joined in this story. I also prepared a story about Elein’s house and Pascale Gatzen’s new teaching method. Past issues normally included around 15 people, so this was an unusually large group of people for me to work with — something I’ve never experienced. I truly enjoyed the process of creating this issue.
Today “here and there library” starts at Utrecht Now Idea, an event that coincides with the launch of the issue for which we planned a new style of omikuji with Ryoko Aoki. Recently, Ryoko has been interested in messages coming from fortune telling, like tarot cards, which she has been integrating into her artworks. I included her interview and exhibition document in Here and There, so this event was connected to the new issue.
Ryoko lives in Kyoto. While she was concentrating on omikuji it started rain hard, and I was very worried. Some areas of Kyoto were becoming flooded. First she sent me a draft for her omikuji messages while it was raining quite hard outside. I thought they were so great and asked her to go on. In the meantime she completed them and then we started thinking of how to represent them. She said that a doll house her daughter created could fit for this project. On July 7, I received a photo of the house. It has a green wall and red roof. Inside, I could see white curtains and a clock. Ryoko said this is a little shrine house for omikuji cards. On the next day, the rain stopped. Ryoko sent the house from Kyoto to Tokyo.
At Utrecht Now Idea, a little temple was installed among books I had created in the past. It was great to see everything that I made during the past 20 years, with this tiny house delivering messages from faraway.
(Photographs by Futoshi Miyagi)
Ryoko Aoki
