Today Is My Second Meeting With Ushibuka City Hall Employees To Discuss Omoidemari, A Temporary Public

Today is my second meeting with Ushibuka city hall employees to discuss Omoidemari, a temporary public art project I've been working on for the past year and hope to launch for the month of April to coincide with the Ushibuka Haiya Festival. I'm both nervous and excited, and I can't help feel at a disadvantage discussing complicated matters in a second language. Still, they seem excited. Hopefully we can make this happen together.  More information on the project here.

Participatory art projects. Why do I do this to myself?

The first shots from an upcoming photo project on identity. More soon.

The ninth piece (and second Brit) in a photo series I’m doing on group identity. Last Saturday I exhibited the project and photographed attendees of the Minamata Cultural Exchange Festival. Photos of that soon. More info on the series at the project site.

The seventh piece in a new photo series I’m doing on group identity. I decided to only include each person's name and chosen identities to keep each piece more simple. But, to give some more information, so far two of the portraits were taken in Chicago and the rest in Japan. Of the participants, one was Canadian, today's is Jamaican, and the rest have been American.  In two weeks I'm setting up at an international festival in the city of Minamata and am excited to have the opportunity to photograph visitors from places like Slovenia and Mexico in addition to local Japanese people.

More info at the project site.

Tissue case, cardboard, construction paper, and inkjet on printer paper.