Yesterday afternoon, there were some quite impressive clouds floating over Okayama, on the other side of the Seto Inland Sea. As I don’t know much about clouds, I’m not sure why, but such a view is pretty rare. I suspect that their existence is related to the fact that a […]
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The other day (OK, it really was one and half years ago, when I just started working there, though the pictures are a bit more recent) I found something interesting on Kagawa University’s main campus. Check it out: Those long (5 story-high) tubes are full of rocks […]
Well, it’s not because the Setouchi Triennale 2016 is over that it’s too late for a few more interviews of the artists that took part in it, is it? Recently, Esther Stocker and I exchanged a few e-mails about it, and she kindly answered a few of my questions. Here […]
When you visit beautiful and famous parks in Japan, you sometimes stumble upon newlyweds taking pictures. Here is a young couple who immortalized their wedding in Okayama’s Korakuen:
Chinu, the Black Sea Bream of Uno by Yodogawa Technique is a fascinating piece. If you have been through Uno Port (in Tamano City, Okayama) – for example, going to Naoshima from Honshu – you must have seen it. It was made three years ago, exclusively from trash […]
Yesterday, I visited Inujima for the first time. I’ll tell you all about it soon (right now, I’m spending my few days of vacations as much as possible away from my computer, but that won’t last). Today, I’m going back to Shamijima to see all the art completed […]
In the Okayama Prefecture countryside, near the town of Sōja, there is a quite interesting temple, interesting mostly due to its pagoda. It is called Bitchū Kokubunji. Before going any further, a few words of history and etymology. Bitchū (備中) is the former name of the western […]