Calliope
The Worlds of Jack Finche and Kohava Ray
CALLIOPE ART BOOKS
VISIONS IN: KALEIDOSCOPICS OUT
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EXURBAN
Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight
(Photopoetry Book or Chapter)
EXURBAN is a collection of 12 photopoems all set around the theme of seeing everyday objects through a lens of not what they seem to be but what they might be in some alternate conceptual world. While the collection stands by itself as a quirky and entirely novel approach to art, it also could be marketed as a chapter in a larger book of photopoetry, including Captains Cove and Paleozoic.
ALSO SPRACH DIE VOGEL
When the bird took a rest
To put down his wing
On the soil
He already ended his life
Through thirty thousand years
The most part of his wing
Returned to the land
But the bone was left
Which is bathed
In ephemeral sunlight of
North America
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The discovery of the bones
Immediately ran around the world
Famous and non-famous pianists
Offered their compositions
As his requiem
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Listening to them
He made a vow:
Be born again, and play
Those beautiful compositions
By himself
See Also Sprach Die Vogel and other EXURBAN Photopoems at: https://terrafirma5.wixsite.com/mysite/photo-poem
CAPTAIN'S COVE
Maritime Musings
MARINE CODE
One: Eat 10 coconuts and swim to N direction.
Two: Introduce yourself to 10 people who have name starting from N.
Three: Float 10 boats out of Manhattan, and invite people to Ms. Narita’s birthday party.
Four: Choose 10 colors and paint Mr. Nelson’s house.
Five: Place10 chairs in a row on the beach of North Atlantic Ocean and play a chair game.
Six: Catch 10 kinds of fishes, make them Sashimi there, and treat Japanese who were chosen by lottery to find a man among them whose neck has N tattoo.
Seven: If you are Jew, learn Buddhism Ten precepts. If you are Buddhist, learn Jewish Ten Commandment. Then write the things you think important in a Notebook.
Eight: Pray toward the North from the window of the 10th floor.
Nine: At 10:10 10 October in 2010, go to North and show your biggest smile to the people there you meet.
Ten: What you think the 10th instruction?
The answer should be reported to Mr. Nomura in 10 hours.
Farewell
See MARINE CODE and other CAPTAIN'S COVE Photopoems at: https://terrafirma5.wixsite.com/mysite/photo-poem
PALEOZOIC
The Earth and its Seas Before the Age of Dinosaurs
Opabinia regalis
Opabinia is an extinct, stem group arthropod identified from the in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. It lived 505 million years ago.
Its segmented body had flaps along the sides and a fan-shaped tail. The head had five compound eyes, a ventral mouth facing backwards, and a clawed proboscis that probably passed food to the mouth.
Zenaspis powerii
Zenaspis is an extinct jawless fish which lived during the early Devonian period
The fish was a bottom feeder. There were sensory organs beneath its head suggesting that it searched for buried prey such as worms, microorganisms and sunken organic matter
Its armored head takes up a third of the body length and is almost as wide as long. The defensive position of its eyes suggested that it was a prized prey item
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Eodalmatinia destobesi
Eodalmatinia is a trilobite of the order Phacopida that scoured the sea floor during the middle Ordovician 465 million years ago in what is now France
This species had a long tailspine, or telson, that is retained in extant species such as horseshoe crabs
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Urarineida
Uraraneida is a spider ancestor which thrived between 400 million and 250 million years ago in what is now Myanmar.
These animals are re known for their spinnerets, which are modified “legs” that produce silk and control its extrusion from tiny pores called spigots
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JOMONAL
Reinterpratations of Ancient Japanese Arts and Culture
Jomon is the name of an archaeological period of ancient Japan and its culture. I am totally fascinated by the artifacts produced during this time. The earliest stage of Jomon culture began an astonishingly long time ago, about 14,000 BCE and lasted until to 300 BCE. The faces and shapes that appear on Jomon pottery are mysterious, primitive, magical and sometimes humorous. Since the birthplace of my parents is in the midst of Jomon habitation, I believe my ancestor is also of the Jomon people. Copying these images, I want to extract the power and energy of my ancestors and bring it into the modern world.
See more Jomonal artworks at :
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BOOKMARKS
Be Entertained Every Time You Save Your Page
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It seems rare nowadays to see anyone read a book conscientiously more than half an hour.
On the other hand, this broken effort gives one many chances to use a bookmark. I used to use a piece of paper, an old punched ticket, an ad, and all kinds of small scattered pieces of paper to mark the page. Seeing these sudden "bookmarks" again and again, I started to feel I must use something better, at least out of respect for the book.
Surely, when my eyes are exposed to these tiny bits of paper again and again, do they not influence to my visual and aesthetic sense? Why should I not have a pretty book mark then?
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TRANSITIONS
A Picture Diary of My Long Wait
On May 15, 2015 I was separated from my American family and began expressing everyday feelings in a picture diary. The purpose was to observe it calmly so that I can release it. Since I had so much anger and sadness inside and it came to the point where I didn’t care about anything: I was suddenly trapped by the negative feelings so much that in the middle of the night starting to type long e-mails to the certain people. Calling them frantically, and tears fell down nonstop.
I knew, though, if I didn’t get out of this bottomless mud of self-misery, frustration, anger of all kinds of harmful feelings, I’d eventually kill my potential to live better, to serve people, and make people happy and even the will to live.
One day, I happened to hear spiritual guidance that if you can keep a happy feeling for 30 days then you can feel that way most of the time until it becomes your basic feeling. Since then, I began to observe how I felt day by day and to express it in a visual image. I have been keeping a diary for 14 years, so it was not difficult to do this. I added a visual image into each ３×ï¼”cm square template.
Then an unexpected thing happened. I began to draw over the 3 by 4 square, feeling that my mind was released more freely. I couldn't stop and it became an important routine every day. The bigger the size; the more creativity. The mind which mostly expressed its fragility and seeking for strong sympathy from the others has gradually shifted to calmness, appreciation, self-healing and wanting to heal the others. Through this works, I might be able to sublimate my inner confined feeling toward creation.
“Picture Diary” is from May 15, 2015 to Valentine's Day 2021.
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9.14
One part of this day's evening News Paper
9.15
I had absolute joy to create book marks by using Japanese traditional design and fruits. I loved coloring them.
9.16
Wednesdays are the days when I enjoy Sake. I borrowed a book called "Ichiji-Senkin - Enjoy high quality calligraphy" Before this day, the design of the picture diary is colorful so I thought monotone might be better for this day. This black doesn't mean the darkness of my mind, but it represents the focus, the strength, the confidence, and the solitude and absorbs all other colors to make it into absolute energy.
9.17
I quarreled with my mother, feeling bad air has filled this small home. Once you go outside, you find a neutral world and you can be creative and actually create yourself.
9.18
Self-Portrait, done in July,2014. At that time, I wrote that I was happy to do art constantly. Drawing this face, I wished to regain the satisfaction as well as seeing things from different point of view, which led me to draw the profile.
9.19
Skype time with my son was shorter than usual. I really missed him. I choose an image of a statue of mother and a child for today. She holds her son like I did when Tora was a baby.
9.20
I thought it was very fortunate that I could use all time 100% for myself. I will surely be happy to spend time with my husband and my son in the future. I believe in "Like attracts a like." Let me accept this moment to moment with joy, enhance my vibration and have 100% appreciation and joy continuously.
9.21
Some trouble in Skype. The lessons after 20:00 were canceled. I panicked at the beginning and then spent time for the recovery. After that I did art. For this day, I wrote a definition of art from a dictionary since I completed to color the picture of Sep.19 and felt I approached one step closer to art. I like this red and white stripe for the background. It's eye pulling. "Geijutu no Aki" sounds also refreshing, too.
9.22
From Tadanori Yokoo
He won the World Cultural Award this year. The morning newspaper has a column about the people who got the awards. Reading his biography, the way he makes art attracts me a lot. Some are same ideas. I want to establish myself as artist like him. So, I copied a part of his art.
9.23
Autumn Equinox day
I am thinking to go to the cemetery to pray for our ancestors. I bought a bouquet for them, I sketched those flowers.
9.24
It has been 10 years since Tommy gave me a first e-mail. 9.24.2015 is our 10th anniversary. The heart has 10 layers. It must have been the destiny and it can be a golden opportunity to expand myself. So, the first heart is colored in gold. The heart is expanding even we have trial and error, I believe, the direction is right. Outside the heart is the darkness. But we embrace it rather than being swallowed by it. The darkness in the background makes the heart shine even more.
9.25
Today, I went to Ofuro first time in a while, did art, and then English teaching. It was total happiness under this situation. Peace. The picture of the 19th came down to this day, so I make 25th as a holiday.
9.26
From a calligraphy book. I copied the one I liked. The artist is Mr. Ishi.
9.27
Fragrance of autumn. Rice and fragrant olive.
9.28
Super Moon. We had a big moon on the 27th Sep, too.
9.29
Awakening (Kanji).
The process is slow, but I totally believe that I am heading to Awakening so no worries. After the supermoon, the new Jewish year, and about one month before of my birthday (46) when I will step forward to the latter half of my life. I am experiencing a paradigm shift. I also wrote 6 pages in my spiritual diary.
9.30
Sirian Sacred Circuitry. 1 min, for each one. 15 items. Rewire your brain circuit.
10.1
New Month has come again. This month is one month before my birthday. I felt more ambitious. I'll be 46. At the age of 45, it was a turning point of my life. Until now, I had been preparing, but from now, I'll taste the meal which had been cooked for the first half of my life. So the picture for this day is a soup bowl.
10.2
It's very comfortable, easy for me to live from the end of Sep. I feel so much happiness. At the same time, I felt affection toward colorful refreshing autumn, severe coldness of the winter, ambient of spring, and summer like inferno. This day, I read a story from Andersen. I picked up one of the pictures to represent the four seasons.
10.3
I went to the public bath. The price was discounted because of my birth date, 3. I stayed there for 2 hours. Someday, I want to go to Spa. The bath tub had red roses.
10.4
This day, I used Modern Girl design book. It's probably from Taisho era of Japan. I choose repetition of rabbits because of the super moon Smoon).
10.5
Skype with daddy and Aron.
10.6
The faces are copied from a photo taken in Nara August 2015.
10.7
It's a suitcase I saw in Kuzuha Mall, Innovator. The black color and embossing of a crossed mark is really cool. I'd like to check it again after I decide if it's useful. The bird behind the suitcase is a phoenix from a Japanese design book.
10.8
After the public bath, I had some oranges and juice called Shikuwasa. They were very delicious. The background is a Japanese traditional design.
10.9
"The Tree of Life" from Kabara. I'd like to learn it seriously someday.
10.10
Full of cosmos flowers outside.
10.11
Yawata Shrine with my mother. We took a different path than usual. At the shrine, I saw a small sakaki branch with some fruits. The picture shows the sacred branch and a sunset which was overwhelmingly beautiful.
10.12
I copied one part from a book titled: "Animals in Translation:Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior." It talks about the similarity between humans and wolves. It also says that humans learned from wolves and one of the reasons why primitive people survived was because of what they learned from the wolves and dogs. "Neanderthals...didn't have dogs."
10.13
I thought I was lucky at Sakaguchi Clinic. Usually they offered the date of the surgery a few months later after the appointment. But there was a cancelation, so it turned out that I was able to have the surgery on the 16th of Oct. It's just 3 days later.
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10.3
I went to the public bath. The price was discounted because of my birth date, 3. I stayed there for 2 hours. Someday, I want to go to Spa. The bath tub had red roses.
10.4
This day, I used Modern Girl design book. It's probably from Taisho era of Japan. I choose repetition of rabbits because of the super moon Smoon).
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10.5
Skype with daddy and Aron.
10.6
The faces are copied from a photo taken in Nara August 2015.
10.7
It's a suitcase I saw in Kuzuha Mall, Innovator. The black color and embossing of a crossed mark is really cool. I'd like to check it again after I decide if it's useful. The bird behind the suitcase is a phoenix from a Japanese design book.
10.8
After the public bath, I had some oranges and juice called Shikuwasa. They were very delicious. The background is a Japanese traditional design.
10.9
"The Tree of Life" from Kabara. I'd like to learn it seriously someday.
10.10
Full of cosmos flowers outside.
10.11
Yawata Shrine with my mother. We took a different path than usual. At the shrine, I saw a small sakaki branch with some fruits. The picture shows the sacred branch and a sunset which was overwhelmingly beautiful.
10.12
I copied one part from a book titled: "Animals in Translation:Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior." It talks about the similarity between humans and wolves. It also says that humans learned from wolves and one of the reasons why primitive people survived was because of what they learned from the wolves and dogs. "Neanderthals...didn't have dogs."
10.13
I thought I was lucky at Sakaguchi Clinic. Usually they offered the date of the surgery a few months later after the appointment. But there was a cancelation, so it turned out that I was able to have the surgery on the 16th of Oct. It's just 3 days later.
10.3
I went to the public bath. The price was discounted because of my birth date, 3. I stayed there for 2 hours. Someday, I want to go to Spa. The bath tub had red roses.
10.4
This day, I used Modern Girl design book. It's probably from Taisho era of Japan. I choose repetition of rabbits because of the super moon Smoon).
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10.5
Skype with daddy and Aron.
10.6
The faces are copied from a photo taken in Nara August 2015.
10.7
It's a suitcase I saw in Kuzuha Mall, Innovator. The black color and embossing of a crossed mark is really cool. I'd like to check it again after I decide if it's useful. The bird behind the suitcase is a phoenix from a Japanese design book.
10.8
After the public bath, I had some oranges and juice called Shikuwasa. They were very delicious. The background is a Japanese traditional design.
10.9
"The Tree of Life" from Kabara. I'd like to learn it seriously someday.
10.10
Full of cosmos flowers outside.
10.11
Yawata Shrine with my mother. We took a different path than usual. At the shrine, I saw a small sakaki branch with some fruits. The picture shows the sacred branch and a sunset which was overwhelmingly beautiful.
10.12
I copied one part from a book titled: "Animals in Translation:Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior." It talks about the similarity between humans and wolves. It also says that humans learned from wolves and one of the reasons why primitive people survived was because of what they learned from the wolves and dogs. "Neanderthals...didn't have dogs."
10.13
I thought I was lucky at Sakaguchi Clinic. Usually they offered the date of the surgery a few months later after the appointment. But there was a cancelation, so it turned out that I was able to have the surgery on the 16th of Oct. It's just 3 days later.
10.3
I went to the public bath. The price was discounted because of my birth date, 3. I stayed there for 2 hours. Someday, I want to go to Spa. The bath tub had red roses.
10.4
This day, I used Modern Girl design book. It's probably from Taisho era of Japan. I choose repetition of rabbits because of the super moon Smoon).
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10.5
Skype with daddy and Aron.
10.6
The faces are copied from a photo taken in Nara August 2015.
10.7
It's a suitcase I saw in Kuzuha Mall, Innovator. The black color and embossing of a crossed mark is really cool. I'd like to check it again after I decide if it's useful. The bird behind the suitcase is a phoenix from a Japanese design book.
10.8
After the public bath, I had some oranges and juice called Shikuwasa. They were very delicious. The background is a Japanese traditional design.
10.9
"The Tree of Life" from Kabara. I'd like to learn it seriously someday.
10.10
Full of cosmos flowers outside.
10.11
Yawata Shrine with my mother. We took a different path than usual. At the shrine, I saw a small sakaki branch with some fruits. The picture shows the sacred branch and a sunset which was overwhelmingly beautiful.
10.12
I copied one part from a book titled: "Animals in Translation:Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior." It talks about the similarity between humans and wolves. It also says that humans learned from wolves and one of the reasons why primitive people survived was because of what they learned from the wolves and dogs. "Neanderthals...didn't have dogs."
10.13
I thought I was lucky at Sakaguchi Clinic. Usually they offered the date of the surgery a few months later after the appointment. But there was a cancelation, so it turned out that I was able to have the surgery on the 16th of Oct. It's just 3 days later.