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This project transcribes the city’s architecture into dango, a traditional Japanese sweet made of sticky rice. With Japan’s rich culture of rice cultivation, rice has held a deep connection to ceremonies and festivals since time immemorial. Every region has a local specialty using rice, which serves to show the natural features of that area. Using this rice as a raw material, the participants transferred the architecture of the metropolitan scenery onto the dango, investigating the distinctly cultural scenery of Tokyo through an edible medium with a strong connection to place.
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SUMIFUDE
Sumifude interprets the general concept of printmaking in a broad sense, using the act of “transcribing” across disciplines so as not to limit the means/medium of expression to woodblock and paper.
She has exhibited with The International Mokuhanga Association (Tokyo), The International Print Triennial Kraków (Poland), Fuori Salone, Milan Design Week (Italy), and The Kyo-gashi Design Award, Grand-Prix (Kyoto). She received her Master of Fine Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts and studied abroad as an undergraduate research student at Central Academy of Fine Arts in traditional woodblock printing.
ROPPONGI ART NIGHT SPIN-OFF PROJECT
