If you’re not too familiar with Naoshima, maybe it’s time for a small geography lesson. 🙂 First, the picture is oriented with the North on the left (and thus, South is on the right, East to the top, and West to the bottom). Let’s start with the North, […]
Mukaijima
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Strange artwork this Mukaijima Project – “Make Island From Island” (向島プロジェクト「島から島を作る」). I like the idea. I’m less sure about the result. The idea was to create an artificial island (a floating and anchored one) between Naoshima and Mukaijima (one of the tiny islands surrounding Naoshima, only 500 ft away). It was […]
I’ve waited for that day (yesterday) with a mix of excitement and apprehension, as it was the day I was finally going to set foot on Naoshima. The island where one day, about twenty years ago, the Benesse Corporation decided to set up a Contemporary Art Museum, which made […]