Conversations with the Earth: Before Bamboo Returns
"See & Draw" Art Workshop Series 9 Ryūseidai Play Park Climb up, shake the branches, let's gather mulberries. With scrap wood everyone brought, we make a pot of tonjiru— playing in the mud, making bamboo charcoal, pitching a tent. All this weight—the earth is holding it up, isn't it. And while we're at it—lunchtime! Today's sky, what kind of sky is it? Me, the color of the sky. Surrounded by green, it feels tinged with green; pale and whitish, yet shimmering with rainbow colors. Wind through the leaves, drifting clouds—we feel them. At the end, with the bamboo charcoal we made, let's draw whatever moves our hearts. Find your own "how nice," and show it in your own way. Handmade charcoal is rich with expression; in its inky black, your world rises up. On the way home, a tiny bamboo shoot. The charcoal, returned, becomes the next life.
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