The Old Wall
By Jeanette Fukao
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Bamboo slats, clay clumps Unravelling flaxen twine Pale yellow radish blooms Glimpsed through gaps in Grandpa’s wall Intermingling intentions Jeanette May Fukao is an artist and poet whose ‘mission’ is to find and highlight unnoticed beauty. In her artwork and photography, her subjects are little-known wild plants and small creatures, fragments of the past, and microcosms of Nature. Her poetry is mostly Japanese-style tanka (five-lined poems) and haiku (three-lined poems), inspired by Nature and life in Japan, and accompanies her paintings and photos. Fukao is from Michigan, but has lived in Japan since the 1980’s, and has raised three children in a traditional Japanese extended family household
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The Cat Post Office
By Eva Li
As a supporter of the shop small, shop local movement, Eva Li has begun a collection of sketches of the exteriors and interiors of small, independent shops, and transformed some of those sketches into stitch works. Motivated by political and social issues that are close to her heart, and after Tokyo and its neighboring prefectures announced the state of emergency, she picked up her work as an artist a year ago. She studied constructed textiles in England during the 90s and is currently based in Japan. https://www.instagram.com/kyoko_in_tokyo/
