This Mikel and I at our friends` wedding last summer. They set up a place where people could take their own photo. We were just having a good time and being silly but some turned out really good. Here is another one:
I might call it "Enlightenment by Wedding Cake." It was good cake!
This is an odd view of our sweet ride, affectionately named "The Pink Panther." Somehow I end up looking like a crazy person in photos. Here`s another example:
This Harry Potter was hand-painted and hung in a seriously small Japanese town. Since I spend most of my listening time at home with Mr. Potter, I decided to summon my own magical powers for the picture. I was trying to cast a spell on Mikel (taking the picture)-- a love spell-- I think it worked.
This is an image from a local snow festival I went to. I have a ton of photos but this one is a good example of how visually compact and stacked everything was. The building around them is a Shinto Shrine. The kids in white (on the top left) are some of my students. The festival was a fertility festival that lasted for days. This part of it went from 11:30pm to 9am. I only stayed until 4am, long enough to catch a dance by Kami-sama-- literally translated as Mr. God. Here he is:
His hat is a symbolic penis, detailed right down to the white tassel on the top. He also has a wooden penis in his hand that he uses to touch people`s cheeks with, granting them fertility in all ways. Apparently this festival used to be a massive orgy, although it beats me who would take their clothes off is the middle of January... I resisted my ever present voice telling me I want children NOW, and drove home before I could be fertilized and before I froze to death.
The magic of ceremony in Japan is intense. Even though I don`t understand all of the symbolism, it is still striking. It is good art. That night, I caught another glimpse of what I am searching for in the Craft Land.
Party on!
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