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| Top box front |
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| Top box bottom |
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| Bottom box inside |
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| spangles ornaments |
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| Bottom box back, signing |
Here, I am posting images and explanation of a box art project I was doing to send for the mail art exhibition in Indonesia.
From top cover words, No War Yes Peace (not like a title, but more for the counter words that go with the cover design)
Dimension: Width 23.3 cm, length 30 cm depth 3.2 cm
Recycle from a box of Giladeli chocolate.
Material: handmade paper, cutting paper for lettering, printing images from book of Japanese Buddhist art history, typed words, postcards and my photographs of Japanese temples for collage, origami sticker, spangles (sequins), fishing line.
Typed words inside of cover box:
Consider, meditate, reflect, think over
龍王吼菩薩 10-11C 321.2 by 179.7 cm
Inside of bottom box:
如意輪観音坐像12C, 54.3 cm如意輪寺
mother savior
持国天、83.3 cm, 増長天, 83.6 cm, 金剛峰寺 guadian
calm, love, mercy, save, peace
back of bottom box:
Tomoe nakamura, 2010
2-22-2 Daiho Kanancho Minamikawachi-gun
Osaka 585-0005 Japan
This will be the work for one of the mail art call to the 2nd International Mail Art Exhibition, to Indonesia as a theme of "A Journey to the East, Mail art dedicated 4 Peace." So the theme would be something of artists thoughts on world peace, feeling of people, function of the earth, etc. (guessing from other people's works from their blog.) I am depicting war and peace, calm and anger, human vs Buddhist gods. Thinking about this, I thought box art, (alter box) would be a perfect technique I can use, and I use the box that I have kept a Ghirardelli chocolate that my partner always send to my family in Japan.
Link to the art call sites
other artist mails
A website for 2nd mail art exhibition, A Journey to the East. You can see other people's work, so you know what kind of concept I have in mind.
#1 a travel brochure. It is showing human conflict, (of Samurai from 15C). I put the words, No War, Yes, Peace with cut of handmade paper in shape of words. (it is hard to tell, but it is not a writing, but cutting paper.)
#2 inside of the cover box. I scanned a photo from the Japanese culture series book, and printed as the size of interior of the box. It is luck of some width so I printed double and collage them.
The deity in red is called "Fudo", in easy term in English. It is one of image from 12C in Japan that they play in esoteric Buddhism. Easy to put, his role is to scare the bad evils, and also purifies all human's mindful desires with its fires and his angry face. They are different kinds but the angry face with fire, they all called as Fudo Myouou.
Link to description for Fudo
The reason I put this god on the front cover was that there was a foolish action of human being, (like fighting in a war, destroying nature in my consideration) he is a god to stop their thoughts. And the "action" of opening the box, I consider as entering a place of peace and serenity. He is acting as the "guard man."
#3 They are my own photographs that I took in Nara, Japan. I choose ones that I took during summer. I edited little more over saturated, filtered in blue, so that they can match with other old postcards that I did collage together with.
#4 Collage for the interior of bottom box. I used old postcards and my own photos. I was going to use only postcards at first, but I thought if I use my own photographs, I feel more like it is my original, so I tried to mix them.
#5 In the image of interior of bottom box, I added more things, standing Buddhas, ornament designs during this week to complete.
#1 a travel brochure. It is showing human conflict, (of Samurai from 15C). I put the words, No War, Yes, Peace with cut of handmade paper in shape of words. (it is hard to tell, but it is not a writing, but cutting paper.)
#2 inside of the cover box. I scanned a photo from the Japanese culture series book, and printed as the size of interior of the box. It is luck of some width so I printed double and collage them.
The deity in red is called "Fudo", in easy term in English. It is one of image from 12C in Japan that they play in esoteric Buddhism. Easy to put, his role is to scare the bad evils, and also purifies all human's mindful desires with its fires and his angry face. They are different kinds but the angry face with fire, they all called as Fudo Myouou.
Link to description for Fudo
The reason I put this god on the front cover was that there was a foolish action of human being, (like fighting in a war, destroying nature in my consideration) he is a god to stop their thoughts. And the "action" of opening the box, I consider as entering a place of peace and serenity. He is acting as the "guard man."
#3 They are my own photographs that I took in Nara, Japan. I choose ones that I took during summer. I edited little more over saturated, filtered in blue, so that they can match with other old postcards that I did collage together with.
#4 Collage for the interior of bottom box. I used old postcards and my own photos. I was going to use only postcards at first, but I thought if I use my own photographs, I feel more like it is my original, so I tried to mix them.
#5 In the image of interior of bottom box, I added more things, standing Buddhas, ornament designs during this week to complete.
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