Wednesday, March 05, 2003

Where I fell in love with Japanese paper - Aiko's in Chicago In my story, A Love letter to Paper, I mentioned that Marge showed me a store in Chicago that had Japanese paper. I just remembered the name of the store: Aiko's. Now in Atlanta we have the Ichiban Gallery that stocks Japanese papers. Now too, most art supply stores sell a wide range of oriental papers. But I still treasure my paper sampler from Aiko's. 7:18:52 PM    comment []

A love letter to Paper Today I wrote a love letter to Paper. Now I realize that each of my main materials, paper and iron, needs some attention just for itself. I've been so intent on making bowls that unite paper and iron that I haven't wanted to make any bowls just of iron any more, nor any just of paper. When my children were little, I made sure I gave each one of them some undivided attention alone, just the two of us. Can't I do this with iron and paper too? Would it be so terrible to make a paper bowl? An iron bowl? Maybe this would ease the process of making iron and paper bowls, instead of being a detour? It isn't that I haven't had any urges to make paper bowls or iron bowls. It's just that I've been censoring them. I'm afraid of getting distracted. Today, making paper bowls and iron bowls no longer feels like a distraction. What a relief! 10:32:56 AM    comment []