{"id":1459,"date":"2018-08-11T00:17:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T00:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artappraisalclub.com\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2018-08-16T01:32:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T01:32:29","slug":"28-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artappraisalclub.com\/en\/28-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"28 July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, around #HKHouse: volunteered for artist #Shimabuku to plant flowers in the fields around Ketto village in #Akiyamago. He has other works there, including one that gets cucumbers to &#8216;fly&#8217; (being transported) above rice fields using a pulley system mounted on old wooden towers on both sides. &#8216;It used to be rice flying; now it&#8217;s cucumber or tomato,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Why here?&#8217; I asked. &#8216;Here, no one has time to get fat. They are always working the fields. I&#8217;m curious why people chose to live here. They are different from city people.&#8217; &#8216;Perhaps spiritual, perhaps to be close to nature,&#8217; I said. &#8216;Yes, but nature is also very harsh. Maybe, to hide&#8230;&#8217; I think of how everyone needs to hide sometimes &#8211; artists, farmers, hunters the like; then, all of a sudden, nature wakes us all up from it, neither for good nor bad; just to be. Next to the artist&#8217;s work is a tree trunk with claw marks of a bear. The artist said the bear is nicknamed #crescent_bear&#8217; because of the patch of white fur on its chest. Nearby, #JunHonma&#8217;s #MeltingWall outside a school-turned-onsen. From a turquoise blue, the &#8216;wall&#8217; returned water to the summer sky. 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