This is it. The last stretch of the Setouchi Triennale 2016 has started. The Fall session kicked off last week-end, and it usually is the most intense, as in the most crowded. And indeed, I spent this three-day week-end on three islands and crowded they were. Among them, Awashima. […]
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Last Sunday, I had a pretty simple goal: go to Megijima to re-familiarize myself with it and see what had recently changed. As I only go there only about once a year, I’m not always up-to-date with what happens on the island, but on the other hand, it’s not like […]
Sunday was Sports Day on Ogijima! If you know a little bit about Japan (and I assume you do if you’re reading this), you may already know a little bit about Sports Day (also known as Undokai). You may already know that it’s an important day for most children […]
If you’ve been following the latest news about Ogijima, you know that a little more than a year ago, thanks to the arrival of 21 new residents on the island including 6 kids (which would bring the number of kids on the island to 9 if I’m correct), it […]
Shinro Ohtake is one of the incontournable artists of Naoshima. He has no less than three artworks on the island: the beloved “I Love Yu” Naoshima Bath, as well as Haisha, one of the houses from the Art House Project and finally, Shipyard Works, a work in several parts […]
Well, the title sums up pretty well what I did on Sunday. A few weeks ago, Oscar Oiwa invited me to help him for a mural painting project on Ogijima. As you may know, Ogijima’s school reopened last April, but as the old school wasn’t up-to-date with current norms (especially […]
Yesterday, the weather was pretty much perfect, so we decided for an impromptu and long overdue visit to Ogijima: Ogicho’s port As the title of the post hints, I was surprised by the number of construction sites on the island. It may just be a coincidence, it […]
Before the Setouchi Triennale, Ogijima was “famous” (locally only) for one thing and one thing only: its daffodils. At the end of winter, like everywhere else, the island’s daffodils are in bloom, and they do attract a lot of visitors from Takamatsu. Nowadays, as the island is really re-awaking, […]