When covid hit, my wife was about three months pregnant with our second child. We decided that the safest thing to do would be for me to take over all grocery shopping duties.
She always wrote shopping lists for me, and for some reason I started saving them, written mostly in Japanese. I guess I though that maybe in a few years they would be interesting to look back on and see what we were buying in 2020.
I made color variations of the geometric pattern on the cover of Atlas Sound's Bedroom Databank Vol. 3.
I'll be holding an exhibition of contemporary art, Survival Blanket, at ARTZONE gallery in Kyoto as a part of this year's Nuit Blanche art festival. The show will be up from Sep. 30 to Oct. 10.
I visited an old painter's supply store in Kyoto, and purchased 15 gram plastic packets of a few pigments. The main set of pigments discussed in printmaker David Bull's writing on the subject of pigments are:
gunjo (prussian blue)
hon yoko (a type of carmine)
shin seki ei (a basic yellow)
shu (vermillion)
ai-iro (indigo)
I thought I could just ask the shopkeeper for each color by name, but I learned that actually there are many shades and varieties of gunjo, shu, ai-iro, and so on.
The prices were extremely cheap. Some pigments were ¥200, others were ¥400.
A hakobi is a traditional type of brush that's used in Japanese woodblock printmaking 「木版画」to apply pigment to the block. I made this one following instructions written by woodblock printmaker David Bull.
