Comments on: A Showing Of Provocative New Works by Thomas Mayers http://blog.alientimes.org/2009/09/works-on-paper/ A Local Perspective on Life in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:35 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dan Waldhoff http://blog.alientimes.org/2009/09/works-on-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-32023 Dan Waldhoff Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:06:52 +0000 http://blog.alientimes.org/?p=5372#comment-32023 My wife and I rallied two good friends to introduce to Thomas' art and were the first to sign the guest book when Takashi Saitoh Gallery opened yesterday. As Avi described, the works on display were intimate, emotional, challenging, deeply thought provoking - and Beautiful. Thomas mixes so much into small works - just the right size, thank you, for display in an apartment setting - that we left the gallery owning two new pieces to enjoy at home. Everyone with an interest in Japan will benefit from a reading of Junichi Saga's "Memories of Silk and Straw". Thanks to Thomas and Avi, I took my copy of another Saga authored book, "Memories of Wind and Water", off the book shelf and moved it to our only piece of furniture, a low all purpose table, where my wife will read it to come to a better understanding of her own history and culture. I will re-read it to readjust my perspectives on what I shouldn't take for grated. My wife and I rallied two good friends to introduce to Thomas’ art and were the first to sign the guest book when Takashi Saitoh Gallery opened yesterday. As Avi described, the works on display were intimate, emotional, challenging, deeply thought provoking – and Beautiful. Thomas mixes so much into small works – just the right size, thank you, for display in an apartment setting – that we left the gallery owning two new pieces to enjoy at home.

Everyone with an interest in Japan will benefit from a reading of Junichi Saga’s “Memories of Silk and Straw”. Thanks to Thomas and Avi, I took my copy of another Saga authored book, “Memories of Wind and Water”, off the book shelf and moved it to our only piece of furniture, a low all purpose table, where my wife will read it to come to a better understanding of her own history and culture. I will re-read it to readjust my perspectives on what I shouldn’t take for grated.

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