Mitsuru Koga






sea stone vases by Mitsuru Koga. Oct 9th to Nov. 2nd at tortoise.

............................................................................................................

Two fun magazines for weaving
* You can weave without a serious a floor loom, built your own looms with cardboard or foam board.

1. salvia vol.1.5



foam board loom & weaving with salvage fabric











2. Craft Magazine 08




actionweaver= Travis MEINOLF + cardboard pocket loom

...........................................................................................................................

making more.....






using leftover yarns from weaving to make a necklace/neck warmer.



trying to teach myself how to crochet, another necklace?? maybe?

.............................................................................................................................

keep & share, beautiful knitwear from UK.

.............................................................................................................................

lately.......


good mail day!! lines & shapes vol.4 + Marzipan from Germany! Lucky me!!
(Thank you!! Mav. , Lena for the nice book and Phyllis for the sweets.) I love the packaging of the Marzipan.



(yum,,,,.......)



I did a baby shower invitation for my friend. This is the first time I do stationary. I think I had fun!!

..............................................................................................................................

Last four prints for the princess Kavalan

05 Mr. salmon



06 Caves



07 nightfall


08 Castle

This is the first weekend that I will not be working after I've started to work on the art show. I you with this 4 images now. Just a short and simple post. Will be back soon! Have a good one! friends!

....................................................................................................................

03 coral 01


04 coral 2



The first two prints ( waves & sea forest) took me forever to finish the sketches and printing. But starting from these two prints everything went smoothly. Also I started to pay more attention of the natural textures.
All the prints are available through the gallery.

If you are interested in any of the prints, you can contact Mylissa. (mylissa@littlebirdgallery.com)

.................................................................................................................

Princess Kavalan

01 waves



02 sea forest








First, I want to say thank you! my friends. Thank you for stopping by last Saturday, also thank you for the flowers!!

Second, I would like to share some stories about the prints i made for this art show.
At the very beginning when I just started to work on the sketches, I wanted to do a children story book. I did a lot of research about the Chinese children stories. I talked to my friends and sisters in Taiwan and asked them which story is their favorite. I couldn't make up my mind to decide on which story to pick till Chihlung told me the story of " Pricess Kavalan". It's a Taiwanese aboriginal story! I immediately drawn to this story. It's so fascinating!! When i found this story it was 6 weeks before the show I realized that I won't be able to make a children book. I didn't want to give up on this story so I started to do a lot of the sketches based on this story
When I developed these sketches/setting at the same time I did a lot of abtract objects sketches. I have no idea where were those objects come from. They are like human tools, utensils. Something like mirror, hair comb,...etc. Then I had two totally different themes of sketches. This was 3 weeks before the show and also I got an email from Mylissa, gallery manager, asking me to give her the statement and Bio. There were more than 3 days I was struggling about the themes and statements. I wrote two different statements.....but at the end I settled for the story of " Pricess Kavalan". I hate writing but I had to say it's very helpful. Everything became very clear. After I finished the statement it's like a fresh start for me.
Below it's a short version of "Pricess Kavalan" ( my friend, Sean helped me to rewrite the story, thank you! Sean)

Pricess Kavalan, the only daughter of the Dragon King of the Esat Sea, and her forbidden romance with the Turtle General Lusheng. When the two eloped to land, the king followed with his crab and shrimp army and turned Lusheng and their son, Heping, into islands using his magic staff. Hearbroken, Kavakan used magical green pearl to transform herself into the fertil Lanyang Plain, and the frequet rains there are her tears when she thinks of her husband. Her regretful father dropped his staff which beames Jinmian Mountain and he fell and became the mountain range surrounding the Plain, never return to the East Sea.

For me, this is not really a love story between the pricess and the General but it's the love for the nature and the love for the lands and ocean where we live in.
(*Kavalan was one of the tribe living in Taiwan Island before Chinese immigrated to the island. All the islands and the Plain in the story are existing in the real world.)

Will come back to share more later!
........................................................................................................................

.........................



made bread for the breakfast



made another lamp for the gallery

stopped by gallery to dropped off the lamp and checked the installation.

sneak peeks of my work! I will have 8 gocco screen prints in the show. both framed and unframed prints will be available. ( will be back with more pictures of the prints and the opening)

..............................................................................................................................

the show opens tomorrow night, hope to see you there!!

..............................................................................................................................

Have a nice weekend!

Last week

We went to visit Ace gallery and saw MELANIE PULLEN's works. We happened to be in La brea area so we decided to spent our lunch break in the gallery. We were a bit surprised what we saw in the show. They are fancy & beautiful images for the "War" theme.










This week

I am in a group show called " paper cut" which will open this Saturday. I couldn't believe that I finally finished everything last Friday. Honestly I enjoy doing this. I can't wait to show you more but here are some drafts and sketches I did.

Will come back on Friday and share more!!








Little bird gallery, 3195 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90039


.................................................................................................................

Black & White
Testing out our new Mamiya with fuji instant black & white films.



chihlung took this one!



and I took this one!

so much love for the black and white photos!

............................................................................................................................

onounit.com

............................................................................................................................

Le Corbusier_ Le Grand

I want this book!!










"cartoon for tapestry for southwest wall, Punjab legislature concil chamber, Chandigarh"


patterns for stained glass, (Notre-Dame -de Haut, Ronchamp)

see more details and spreads of the book here.

............................................................................................................................

matthew brannon




see more here and here.

sunday breakfast + good books



nothing better than reading mina perhonen' new 2008 autumn/winter catalogue on Sunday morning.






New textile design and it's nice to see the design to be letter pressed on the back cover! Actually the whole book's graphics and texts are all letter pressed. so impressed with the details they've put down in the book.



.............................................................................................................................

*** thank you again! Leslie, for this lovely book.

**the tutorial for paper lamp will be on next month, sorry I can't do it this month.

*comes mart (check the postcard set & paper craft/animals) (ポストカード & ペーパークラフトキット)

............................................................................................................................

another paper lamp







Chihlung made another lamp which is hung over our dinning table now. It's a big one (diameter is 18 inches).
We used different kind of vellum and it works well.

.............................................................................................................................

Nick Butcher and more here

.............................................................................................................................

Jochen Lempert

spongetowers 1997



Pour la forme 2007




and his book "white light"




.............................................................................................................................