2015年1月31日土曜日

2 days' community engagement workshops

Sinéad O'Donnell and I had community engagement workshops for 4 groups of local people in Ballymena from 29th to 30th January at Braid Arts Centre and Dunclug Community Centre.
In these workshops after my introduction of "Five Apples" project, I let all participants listen 3 songs of "The Beatles" as one of my apple sculptures are related to "The Beatles".
With listening lyric of the song which they selected, they have made a painting of the song with their imagination.  That's the similar method how I visualize apple sculptures with my imagination.
Everybody' s painting is now installed in The Braid Arts Centre to exhibit.  Please check them out when you stop by.
The Braid Arts Centre
http://www.thebraid.com

私たちは1月29日から30日までバレミーナの4つの異なるグループの人々のために、ブレイド・アート・センターとダンクラグ・コミュニティ・センターで、ワークショップを開催しました。このワークショップでは、「五個の林檎」プロジェクトの紹介の後、1つの林檎がビートルズに因んだ林檎であるように、全ての参加者に3曲のビートルズ・ナンバーを聞いてもらいました。その中から好きな一曲を選んでもらい、歌詞を聞きながら想像力を使ってその曲の絵を描いてもらいました。それは自分が林檎を彫刻作品として想像力で具体化するのと同じ方法です。参加者皆さんの絵が今ブレイドアートセンターに展示されてます。立ち寄ったら、是非見てみて下さい。

3 songs of "The Beatles" I picked
自分が選んだビートルズの3曲
1. Blackbird
2. Penny Lane
3. There's a Place





















(1) Blackbird
written by  John Lennon / Paul McCartney

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night

Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise


(2) Penny Lane
written by  John Lennon / Paul McCartney

In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say hello

On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
The little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a mack
In the pouring rain, very strange

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit, and meanwhile back

In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
And in his pocket is a portrait of the queen
He likes to keep his fire engine clean
It's a clean machine

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A four of fish and finger pies
In summer, meanwhile back

Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout
The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway

In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim
And then the fireman rushes in
From the pouring rain, very strange

Penny lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit, and meanwhile back
Penny lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
Penny Lane


(3)There's A Place
written by  John Lennon / Paul McCartney

There, there's a place
Where I can go
When I feel low
When I feel blue

And it's my mind
And there's no time
When I'm alone

I think of you
The things you do
Go 'round my head
The things you've said
Like, "I love only you"

In my mind there's no sorrow
Don't you know that it's so?
There'll be no sad tomorrow
Don't you know that it's so?

There, there's a place
Where I can go
When I feel low
When I feel blue

And it's my mind
And there's no time
When I'm alone

There's a place
There's a place
There's a place
There's a place

2015年1月24日土曜日

Back and forth from Belfast to Newtwonwards and from Belfast to Ballymena

After meeting with Peter Spence who is an expert for fiber glass and Seamus Carey who is an expert for aging-paint. We decided to make painting samples to decide the method of painting sculptures.
グラスファイバーの専門家とエイジングペイントの専門家とのミーティングの後、彫刻の塗装方法を決めるため塗装サンプルをつくることにした。

I picked up fiber glass samples from Peter in Newtownards
ニュータウンワードのピーターの工場から
グラスファイバーのサンプルをピックアップ

I handed them to Seamus in Ballymena
バレミーナのシェイマスに渡した。


2 painted sample with different method
2種類の方法で塗装されたサンプル

Meeting with Peter and his son in the pub in Belfast
ピターとその息子とベルファストのパブでミーティング


After the meeting I bought some materials for workshop for community engagement next week.
ミーティング後地元のコミュニティのために来週開催するワークショップに必要なものを買いそろえた。



2015年1月11日日曜日

The event at Braid Arts Centre, Ballymena

The launch of "Five Apples" project and blog 
 Friday 9th January 2015 in the Studio Theatre in The Braid Arts Centre at 2.00pm
「五個の林檎」プロジェクトとブログの公開イベント
2015年1月9日午後2時バレミーナのブレイド・アート・センターのスタジオシアターにて






2015年1月9日金曜日

Five Apples Project

I will work for a public art commission until the end of June this year 2015. Actually I will install 5 pieces of Apple sculptures in the Peoples Park in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. As this project will be the biggest commission work in my entire career as an artist,  I am so excited to start working for this !
今年2015年の6月末まで、公共彫刻の仕事をする予定だ。北アイルランドのバレミーナにある人々の公園に5個の林檎の彫刻を設置する。この仕事は自分のアーティストのキャリアの中で最も大きな仕事になるとおり、仕事を始めるにあたってわくわくしている。