invisible birds
I think that birds are flying everywhere in the world... in the forest, over the sea, even on the street.

Tess Giberson, Kazunari Hattori, Shinpei Kusanagi, Rieko Odaka, Hiroe Saeki, Fumio Tachibana, Kei Takemura, Jon Widman
1.9 - 1.31, 2004

There was a small stand of trees nearby, and from it you could hear the mechanical cry of a bird that sounded as if it were winding a spring. We called it the wind-up bird. Kumiko gave it the name. We didn't know what it was really called or what it looked like, but that didn't bother the wind-up bird. Every day it would come to the stand of trees in our neighborhood and wind the spring of our quiet little world.

"The Wind- Up Bird Chronicle" author: Haruki Murakami
(Translated by Jay Rubin, Vintage Books, September 1998)

This exhibition will feature eight artists, each of whom has developed a fine sensibility for creating visually expressive surface from paper and fabric.
As stated in the title, invisible birds, the theme of the exhibition is birds of fiction, birds that no one has seen in reality.

Some of the exhibition artists draw or paint various birds of wonder, others create installations in which one may discover a hint of them within the texture of paper and fabric.
Enjoy the small touch of magic that enchants paper and fabric.

Taka Ishii Gallery / Contact: Nahoko Yamaguchi
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