Article by Jonathan Curiel in SF Weekly and here. The works discussed in the article are all works-in-progress.

This project was recently funded through Kickstarter based on my trip to Japan for five weeks in Oct/Nov of 2011.

PUBLIC INTERACTIVE PROJECT
The project is titled “Honoring Japan’s ‘sense of place’”, and it focuses on artistic research into Japan’s ‘sense of place’, as well as an investigation into how the ‘sense of place’ of Japan has changed due the Tsunami: what is lost and what remains.

This project is an interactive public project; using the platform of Kickstarter to create art based on public interaction. This project will document my experience of Japan for the first time via your suggestions of ‘sense of place’ moments. Every Kickstarter supporter contributes to the planning of my five week itinerary in Japan: places to go, food to eat, people to meet, art and architecture to see etc.; something specific that resonates as ‘Japan’ that I then experienced and documented when I’m was there. The photographs, collages and other works produced from this project will become a publication on return to the U.S.