August, 2018 | Dog Eaters

When it’s too hot

Posted on 08.27.18 under Uncategorized

It’s over 90 F and the humidity is 65-70% but you have to wear a jacket for your job. Get some built-in fans!

I’m seeing these all over Tokyo, these days.

Late afternoon Tokyo sky

Posted on 08.26.18 under typhoon #20 Cimaron

After Typhoon #20, aka Cimaron blew through Tokyo…

Most typhoons that make it to Tokyo are like courteous house guests — they stay one night and leave early the next morning…

The first two mangoes on the land, this is the bigger of the two. May have picked it too early out of anxiety — sometimes you see a perfectly ripe fruit and then when you pick it, you see that a bird has poked a hole in it. Waited ten days before eating it.

The fruit to seed ratio was very high. It wasn’t too sweet and had a nice resin tang. Was juicy on the brink of being watery.

On to the next!

Back to Honolulu

Posted on 08.12.18 under Uncategorized

Kakaako used to the the light industrial/art-bohemian area between Ala Moana and Ward Centre and Ward Warehouse. Now it’s a super high-end residential, shopping, and restaurant area. Pow Wow street/wall art is still a block or so away, but we’re seeing the insidious growth of development cancer. Long live the Vulture Capitalists!

Staying at a modest Air BNB in Manoa, our old haunt…

And taking a trip down memory lane at the Hawaii State Art Museum. So many artists from our time in Honolulu were showing. I worked there in the late 70s while Alfred Preis was the director.

Yvonne Cheng

Fred Roster, one of my sculpture professors recently passed…

The exposed pipes at the museum.

Cade Roster, son of Fred and Laila. We showed Cade’s work in Tokyo in the late 90s.

Pat Catlett and John Wisnowsky were lecturer and Art Dept Chairman back in the mid-to-late-70s.

Paul Kodama

Claude Horan’s work from the 1990s. Jay Jensen asked Horan for a public wheel throwing demonstration at what was then the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Yukio Ozaki assisted by getting all the equipment and clay ready and helping Horan at the demo. Horan made several of these figures and took them home to fire. These two were purchased by the SFCA at his Claude Horan’s Retrospective.

Lee Chesney

Marcia Morse, art critic for the Honolulu Advertiser and fiber artist.

Timothy Ojiles. Sat my one-man show, “The Human Factor,” at the Academy of Art in the early 90s.

Howard Farrant, denizen of the painting dept and 404 Piikoi when it was artists studios. Now it’s Sam’s Club.

Joey Chiarello. A bit after my time…

Esther Shimazu, Sayoko Kay Mura (Davidson), Vicky Chock. We have piece from all three. Kay recently passed July 4.

Gaye Chan. We were in the same foundation design class with Kenneth Kingrey. She is now the Art Dept Chair.

Mary Mitsuda. Mary and Jesse were kind enough to invite me to live with them when I had to move from my house in Manoa.

Rick Mills. Fellow glass student in the early 80s, he’s now the glass instructor at U.H.

Fred Roster

Hanae Mills. Rick’s wife and fellow student at U.H. together. Great times…

John Morita. A late nighter in the print lab back in the late 70s.

Jeff Dunn.

Tom Haar

Brian Isobe

Ron Kowalke. This is a piece from my favorite Kowalke period.

Ka-ning Fong. Fellow grad student. He kindly took photos of Keith Hernandez as he busted open my piece, “In Case of Emergency.” There was a tab of acid under the glass dome that he was supposed to ingest and record his aesthetic experience. He didn’t imbibe…