Yamada’s Trees
Yamada’s Trees is a periodic collaborative project with an Echizen-based master lacquer artisan, YAMADA Hideki, who has achieved numerous regional and national honors in Japan over six and a half decades of practice.
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Works are interested in the motivation for production; the technician’s relationship with machines, process, and the outcomes of production; the physical attitude of bodies in contexts of production; the ways knowledge is embodied and presented in the factory setting; evidence of technician agency; and in presenting the mesmerizing beauty, humor, and humanizing features of mechanized production complicit in the power and seduction of modern production.
2019-2020