MIKI NITADORI
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    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
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    • Odyssey : Reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
    • Combat exhibition 2008
  • Visual works
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Triumph 2004
  • Curatorial projects
  • Participative & community projects
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
  • Interventions & collaborations
    • Tissu / Motifs Bethune-Bruay 2021
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • I am humility 2015
    • one night in the gallery 2015
  • Written pieces
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
  • Older works
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Interface 2010
    • Transform part one 2010
      • Transform origin 1895 - 1960
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Combat mini video 2007
    • water field 1997, 2007
    • Paradises lost 2000, 2005
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
  • project proposition
    • Ecology & waste
    • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
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  • Home
  • About
  • Artist statement
  • Contact
  • News / blah blah
  • Workshop & Conferences
  • Art Objects
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
  • Exhibitions & Installations
    • Odyssey : Reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
    • Combat exhibition 2008
  • Visual works
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Triumph 2004
  • Curatorial projects
  • Participative & community projects
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
  • Interventions & collaborations
    • Tissu / Motifs Bethune-Bruay 2021
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • I am humility 2015
    • one night in the gallery 2015
  • Written pieces
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
  • Older works
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Interface 2010
    • Transform part one 2010
      • Transform origin 1895 - 1960
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Combat mini video 2007
    • water field 1997, 2007
    • Paradises lost 2000, 2005
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
  • project proposition
    • Ecology & waste
    • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Research

A-lien Pacific
A couple of years ago, Royal Doulton produced a porcelain series called “Pacific". My partner brought two mugs back, saying I would love this series. The plate was highly influenced by Japanese design, and referenced the Pacific ocean in which I bathed daily in my childhood.

The Pacific was my mother. Whenever I came back to the ocean, happy or unhappy, she enveloped me in her comfort.
It has long been my dream to work on European-designed porcelain imagining the Pacific - to bring in my own knowledge of Pacific, the Japanese-American immigrants and their decedents on the same surface, and to create a dialog between the past and present. Porcelain is a link between Asia and West; It was integrated into Western culture through the silk road. Porcelain is a material that seems fragile and yet is strong, representing the life force of these Japanese- Americans and many people who cross the sea to find a better life, a survival. History of objects teaches us that for centuries, Every culture was made of mixture of savoir faire of different countries. People are behind the techniques and knowledge. When we understand that there is nothing but a pretense to think a country needs to protect their own land from outsider.  Many things we use daily did not exist without other countries people and there is no unique country in the world and especially in Europe.

Transferred archive photographs from Lahaina, Maui , Hawai'i  onto porcelain series " pacific " Royal Doulton. size :16 cm & 23 cm, transferred and fired by V- ceramics ( Montreuil, Paris)
July 2018


A-lien ? ( A-lien pacific & A-line Cuisine, A-lien sewing)

In autumn 2017, I saw an interview with the Japanese-American writer, Karen Tei Yamashita. I was touched by her saying she feels close to aliens. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in February 1941, Executive Order 9066 was issued. From that moment onwards, Japanese-Americans were considered ”Enemy Aliens”. Until the end of the war, Japanese from the west coast to the Colorado river, plus Community Leaders, were put into ten internment camps.

When we separate ‘Alien’ into two words, “ A- lien”, in French it becomes “to link”. I personify this link, “A-lien”, because without it I feel as if I do not exist. This word fascinates me because it carries opposite meanings: to be a stranger and to link. Every culture develops because of foreign elements, and migrants contribute largely to the evolution of every aspect of it, from food to objects of daily use. It shapes the perceptions and understandings that become contemporary culture. As a development from my Odyssey : reflect project, I am currently working on three projects that involve food, porcelain and sewing.
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  • Home
  • About
  • Artist statement
  • Contact
  • News / blah blah
  • Workshop & Conferences
  • Art Objects
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
  • Exhibitions & Installations
    • Odyssey : Reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
    • Combat exhibition 2008
  • Visual works
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Triumph 2004
  • Curatorial projects
  • Participative & community projects
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
  • Interventions & collaborations
    • Tissu / Motifs Bethune-Bruay 2021
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • I am humility 2015
    • one night in the gallery 2015
  • Written pieces
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
  • Older works
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Interface 2010
    • Transform part one 2010
      • Transform origin 1895 - 1960
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Combat mini video 2007
    • water field 1997, 2007
    • Paradises lost 2000, 2005
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
  • project proposition
    • Ecology & waste
    • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Research