Some Bold Paint And Tape Design I Discovered At A Boxing Gym While On A Walk Yesterday In Kumamoto City.

Some bold paint and tape design I discovered at a boxing gym while on a walk yesterday in Kumamoto City. I love how it was applied to architecture, framing, and signage. I couldn't get enough of it.

The sixteenth piece in my photo series on group identity. I took this one of my brother at Mogushi Beach near my town in Japan. 

More info on the series at the project site.

As I get older, I feel my art dreams are getting more realistic, but I worry that they're actually just getting smaller. How big is too big? How small is too small?

This project has taught me new things as an artist seeking participation from others. I learned how to explain myself and what I'm looking for clearly and concisely, so that I get the right kind of responses. I'd had a similar project before, "I Identify As", which was getting me a lot of goofy self-descriptions instead of honest responses about identity. Only after changing "as" to "with" and cleaning up my explanation, did people's answers really shift. Second, I've learned to be more flexible. At first I had an idea of the kinds of responses I was looking for: short, serious, group-oriented, but I've come to embrace the diversity of responses, like this very long one. I wanted this project to give people freedom to express their group identities, and I learned that, after clearly explaining my intentions, I should commit to that freedom 100%. This is the fourteenth photo in I Identify With. More info and photos at the project site.

The fifteenth piece in my photo series on group identity.  More info on the series at the project site.

Film photos of Amakusa, Japan taken during my final month there in July. 最後の７月に撮られた天草市での写真。