Postcard Project – Woven Memories
Setouchi Triennale 2016, Fukutake House Asia Platform, Shodoshima
The Postcard Project began in 2008. Up to the conclusion of its first stage in 2013, more than 300 postcards were sent out to embark on their own journeys. The journey of each postcard may be a long and winding one, starting from the collection and making of its image to its arrival at the final destination. Each of them is a letter as well as a record of the time and spaces it has travelled through.
The postcards exhibited at Shodoshima for the Setouchi Triennale belong to the second stage of the Postcard Project. Entitled Woven Memories, this collection of postcard works combines the patterns of traditional Japanese kimono with soy sauce, which has been brewed at Shodoshima for 400 years. Merging the senses of sight and smell, the works invite visitors to experience the history, culture and daily life of Shodoshima and Japan. Images of the postcards were made by accumulating light and time with the technique of “time drawing”. This echoes with Shodoshima’s brewing of soy sauce, which also takes time and uses light. Visitors are welcome to select a postcard they like, write on it their thoughts and love, and send it to someone in a faraway place.
明信片計劃 ─ 織紋印記
瀨戶內國際藝術祭2016，小豆島福武小學亞洲藝術平台
明信片計劃自2008年展開，至2013年完成第一階段，已有三百多張明信片從不同的地方踏上自己的旅程。每張明信片由圖像的搜集和製作，到透過郵遞抵達遠方，是漫長而轉折的過程；它是書信，也記錄了時間和空間的轉移。
這次參加瀨戶內國際藝術祭，在小豆島展出的明信片，屬明信片計劃的第二階段，作品名為《織紋印記》，以日本傳統和服的圖式和紋樣為基礎，結合小豆島擁有四百年釀造歷史的醬油，結集視覺和嗅覺感觀，體驗小豆島和日本的歷史、文化和生活三者的關係。明信片沿用「時間繪畫」的創作技法，透過累積的時間和光轉化成視覺圖像，與小豆島使用時間和光的醬油釀造過程有異曲同工之處。參觀小豆島的遊人可以選取喜歡的明信片，即場提筆書寫，把想念的情感和愛，從小豆島傳送到別處的彼岸。
A blog "Setouchi Island Radio" features the postcard project and the process of sending them to post:
瀨戶內小豆島的網頁也介紹明信片計劃和展覽後明信片安排寄出的過程：
http://shimaradio.seesaa.net/article/446635647.html