MIKI NITADORI
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    • Transform part one 2010
    • Looking for "tree in the sun" 2010
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    • Combat : Manual for daily survival original works 2003 -2008
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    • Mini video 2007, 2010
    • Paradise lost 2000, 2005
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      • Ecology & waste
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    • Writing of light
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    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
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    • 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
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  • Home
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  • Artist statement
  • Visual works
    • 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
    • Hale 2010 / 2023
    • 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
  • Community, Residency & Workshops
    • Writing of light
    • Combat: lockdown
    • Aloha
    • Creating an exhibition
    • Samsara in Arcadia
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
    • Sing & See
    • Workshop & Conferences
  • 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
  • Organization & Curation
    • Photography?Why?
    • L'anti chambre
    • Watashitachi-Nous
    • Tohoku
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 Samsara in Arcadia(2010) edited 2023

“Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything hostile in the world gone and overcome as soon as one had overcome time, as soon as time would have been put out of existence by one's thoughts?”
―
Hermann Hesse, Sidadhartha

In February 2010,  I met the legendary art teacher Janet Sato at Baldwin High school, who offered me an opportunity to work with her art students.
I was working on people's relationships to their cultural heritage. I wanted the individual conversation to take place while photographing these teenager. I wanted a background of nature, almost a European countryside, Arcadia.

Paradise in a sense, yet not so obviously crying out of Hawai'i's history and nature. These are some of the photographs during our conversations.
I found these photographs represented Samsara, the suffering-laden cycle of life, death, and rebirth without beginning or end. It is also referred to as the wheel of existence (
Bhavacakra). At the time, I did not edit these photographs; I printed some and gave it to Janet and put them on a side. As my preoccupations increased with older photographs and what they were saying, I did not return to them.

Recently, I have been thinking about what consists of my life journey and I decided to organize these photographs for the web page.
These teenagers are now grown, adults. Photography needs patience to be digested as an experience in life.

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  • Home
  • News
  • Profile
  • Artist statement
  • Visual works
    • 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
    • Hale 2010 / 2023
    • 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
  • Community, Residency & Workshops
    • Writing of light
    • Combat: lockdown
    • Aloha
    • Creating an exhibition
    • Samsara in Arcadia
    • Tigers, lions, dragons, dolphins, rising sun and beautiful moon shining
    • Big scare
    • Combat: Iolani
    • One boy and twenty girls
    • Sing & See
    • Workshop & Conferences
  • 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
  • Organization & Curation
    • Photography?Why?
    • L'anti chambre
    • Watashitachi-Nous
    • Tohoku
  • Contact