MIKI NITADORI
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    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
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      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
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    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
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    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • one night in the gallery 2015
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
  • Community, Residency & Workshops
    • Samsara in Arcadia
    • Writing of light
    • Combat: lockdown
    • Aloha
    • Creating an exhibition
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
    • Sing & See
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    • L'anti chambre
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  • Home
  • News
  • Profile
  • Artist statement
  • Visual works
    • Hale 2010 / 2023
    • Odyssey : reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Triumph 2004
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Transform part one 2010
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Combat exhibition 2008
    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
    • project propositions
      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Participate & Collaborate
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • one night in the gallery 2015
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
  • Community, Residency & Workshops
    • Samsara in Arcadia
    • Writing of light
    • Combat: lockdown
    • Aloha
    • Creating an exhibition
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
    • Sing & See
    • Workshop & Conferences
  • Organization & Curation
    • Photography?Why?
    • L'anti chambre
    • Watashitachi-Nous
    • Tohoku
  • Contact

Palaka : brother, sister & mother

3/18/2022

 
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I am interested in those links, those links that became invisible today as they are fascinating.Working daily surrounded by my work gives me another prospective about them. Palaka, probably one of the most historic fabric concerning the immigration in Hawai'i along the invention of Aloha shirt with Kimono fabrics. They are not Hawai'ian fabrics yet they are very important to the history of plantation period that marked Hawai'i. As a child who partly grew up in the 80's in Japan, we were quite into the fabrics, that we called Gingham check. ( Malaysian word with english word.) this fabric is called Vichy and was popularized with the industrialization in 19th and also 20th century.  It is a fabric that we see all the time in packaging of aliments yet don't give much value to it. When I see the girls in the 1950's in Hawai'i still wearing a dress made out Palaka, somewhere it makes me directly think of the workers in the plantations.
 This over laps with the idea of family. As the society had changed rapidly from industrialization, the family became smaller and smaller. When we were growing up we were in the period of the nuclear family and now I guess family are mainly restructured or non existent. The family structure changed as our society had changed. I am curious of the notion of family. What does it mean today? these two important elements that may had been the norm centuries ago is a mystery of today.
 Little more on Palaka, https://hawaiipalaka.wordpress.com/

Drawing five

3/8/2022

 
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Some others thoughts of the day

3/2/2022

 
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March 02nd, 2022

3/2/2022

 
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I have been printing this same image for last
1 week and a half. What? Are you still working
on the same image?  I want to print each
image differently.  The same plate yet different. This has been the reason why I never became printer of any sort, I love the messy, uneven, process of making things. Every day is pretty much of what color plate , do I make some change and manually spread the colors  to find the consistency that is suitable and I go. I have restrained myself of the color use. Don't expand too much. Basically, Blue, red and yellow with orange. my prints are all very messy, yet I like these marks, stains and not perfect ways of working.  I want to go back to drawing... almost there, there are so much prints, what shall I do with them?

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  • Home
  • News
  • Profile
  • Artist statement
  • Visual works
    • Hale 2010 / 2023
    • Odyssey : reflect Exhibition / Installation 2014-2020
    • Odyssey : reflect orginal works 2013 -2015
    • Odyssey : reflect artist book 2014 - 2018
    • A-lien Pacific 2018
    • Post-script 2013 - 2018
    • Gratitude 2017
    • Triumph 2004
    • seesaw spotting 1997-2001
    • Catherine's Pier 2017
    • Transform part one 2010
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
    • Blond Ambition 2008
    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
    • Combat exhibition 2008
    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
    • project propositions
      • Ecology & waste
      • Textile as a form of Cultural heritage & Community
  • Participate & Collaborate
    • Timelesshugs: August - December 2015
    • Timelesshugs: January - February 2016
    • Timelesshugs: Arles 2016
    • Timeless hugs: Bandstand
    • Combat in progress 2008
    • A-lien cuisine 2018
    • Aloha Phantasm 2015
    • Humility Quest 2014
    • one night in the gallery 2015
    • Mini dictionary of aqua-humility 2015
    • Slapping 2015
    • Slurp piece : Eat noodle or die 2015
    • I am humility 2015
  • Community, Residency & Workshops
    • Samsara in Arcadia
    • Writing of light
    • Combat: lockdown
    • Aloha
    • Creating an exhibition
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
    • Sing & See
    • Workshop & Conferences
  • Organization & Curation
    • Photography?Why?
    • L'anti chambre
    • Watashitachi-Nous
    • Tohoku
  • Contact