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— Team USA.
At the USOPP (United States Olympic and Paralympic Properties) ‘One Year Out’ to Tokyo 2020 Partner Reception, I created calligraphic elements and a design in black ink within the letters of the large USA logo on a 10′ by 10′ square piece of heavy duty paper, lying on the floor, to be used as a banner.
NEW YORK, NY
— Shiseido.
The theme of a product line we have introduced called WASO – a line for younger millennials consumers in fun calligraphy art created for consumers.
NEW YORK, NY
— Vita Fede
I did a small art event at the offices of Vita Fede in New York. This included a small art exhibition and I decorated two columns in their office with my art work.
NEW YORK, NY
— Shiseido
This is a dinner for Shiseido’s partners at Sephora inside JC Penny.
I made some customized calligraphy paintings as a gift to the guests. Shiseido wanted their guests to experience the richness of Japanese culture through this event.
NEW YORK, NY
— ON LOVE — The Art of Lines, Shapes & Symbols
Until Sunday 4/29
12AM–12AM
Winter Garden
Friday 4/20, 12:30PM: Calligraphy Performance with artist Masako Inkyo
For this calligraphy performance she painted a very large artwork on the floor in a vertical direction, with the characters reading from the top to the bottom of the paper.
In keeping with the theme “On Love” I have chosen eight related words.
真心 – Sincerity
勇気 – Courage
輝 – Sparkle
生命力 – Vitality
響 – Resonance
調和 – Harmony
情熱 – Passion
愛 – Love
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I had a calligraphy performance at the UN in a collaborative event with Sahoko Sato Timpone ( Mezzo-Soprano ) on Friday, June 16, at 1-3pm. This was the third event of “Peace is … ” and I selected the words “Peace is Unity “.
Part I: Waves (Blue Ink) Kana style
– Classical Japanese poem evoking images of ocean waves
Part II: Flow (Black Ink) Contemporary style
– Various kanji representing different aspects of the sea: 波 ( Wave ), 流動 ( Flow ), 風 ( Wind ),光 ( Light ), 影 ( Shadow ), 希望( Hope ),源( Origin )
Part III: Light and Wind (Gold Ink) Manyogana
– from the classical Japanese anthology of One Hundred Poems, which expresses love with metaphors relating to nature.
![Wave [Blue Ink] Kana Style](http://img.youtube.com/vi/2sqIRCvBvrg/mqdefault.jpg)
![Flow [Black Ink] Contemporary Style](http://img.youtube.com/vi/lwsoMDiD8mA/mqdefault.jpg)
![Light and Wind [Gold Ink] Manyogana](http://img.youtube.com/vi/AlLLF4Ctj-Y/mqdefault.jpg)
After the performance, guests wrote their messages of peace in their respective mother languages on Japanese “washi” paper and on stones/seashells which will be thrown onto the “paper ocean”.
I felt peace when I taught my first calligraphy class. There my student brought his grandmother, as the lesson was for her birthday. Since English was not a native language for either of us, our way of communicating was through calligraphy. She wanted to write ” love” for her grandson as a sign of appreciation. So I took her hand and guided her through the movements.
This is how I teach with unity and why it means peace to me.
