Seeing how often I manage to update this blog at the moment, I came to the realization that if I want to cover as much ground as possible telling you about the Setouchi Triennale 2019, I’ll have to break away from chronological order, otherwise, I’ll only reach some destinations after […]
Ryo Abe
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A few days after visiting Inujima and Teshima, we went to… Teshima! Again. However, it’s a different “we”. This time, I didn’t go with my family, but with my friend Cathy Hirano, who also co-writes an awesome blog about Takamatsu and its surroundings. It goes without saying that I warmly […]
As you may know, the Setouchi Triennale’s main goal is to revitalize the islands of the Seto Inland Sea. The Triennale is an amazing idea to trigger that revitalization, but while it is necessary, an art festival every three years is not enough to attain that goal. If one […]
A couple of weeks ago, I committed quite a big blunder, the kind I’ll make only every few years, possibly even no more than once a decade or so. A couple of weeks ago, I finally met Ryo Abe, and… Well, let me give you some context first… Two […]
Today, I’m going to resume talking about the Setouchi International Art Festival with a quite peculiar piece of art as it is a building and also a restaurant called Shima Kitchen (島キッチン). It was designed by Ryo Abe, it is set to be permanent and is located in Karato on […]
The next day we went to Teshima. Strange how I never really paid attention to this island before. I mean, it has a quite noticeable size, the only bigger island in the area is Shōdoshima. I guess the fact that it’s surrounded by Naoshima, Ogijima, Sōdoshima and Honshū, as well as […]