Making of a silk dress with a wing painted on it.
With dye in color blue black.
Realistic feathers placed unrealistically.
A long story told as is.
By artist/escapist Yuko Nagai, currently Miss Sore Thumb in a rural Japanese town
who rambles about random stuff as well.
Read on.
Thank you.

October 1, 2011

wing dress update: there's so much to sea!

it was a very hot summer, and
in mid august i fleed to the western japan
in search of a large body of saltwater to throw myself in
this girl couldn't help it


arrived by chance at tottori
and its famed sand dune

savoring ear-full of desert silence

would you like nose-full of salt water with that?

.....yes.

driving my rented nissan through corn field

it was a pleasant, comforting surprise
to find the tottori prefecture full of windmills making power
surprise, due to their adorable lack of self promotion

and,

meeting moos while on land
then headed east, along the coast line
this is the region called san-in, "in the shadow of mountains"

driving through san-in "geopark" on its winding scenic route
 yup, geopark
finding gems along the way...

one of them gems
ah..........
....summer!!!!
never want to leave...

the above is my personal best of the san-in gems
"yasugi", a quiet little village straight out of classic folk tales

.....wait, i think i was gonna tell you about something else....


oh. the dress.

on my last post, i was considering 2 options for the red trim around the neck
neither of them looked like this but that's what happens
when you rinse your nostrils with salt water one too many times

thank you for hanging with me

the dune at sun down

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

hello Yuko

… your wing-dress-trim-photo looks totally perfect! your trip to the west must have been absolutely inspirational.

comparing the photos from your pleasant journey, it seems near incredible that all these impressive landscapes are to be find in a yet not so vast expanse. and you must have been up very early in the morning to take these photos of the tottori sand dunes without masses of tourists. it's a pity that odours can't be put online - i don't even know the smell of the sea.

((( just a funny coincidence with your windmill-photo. at 2011-09-30 there was a ceremony to mark the completition of the highest situated wind power plant in europe at about 2500m above sea level here in the swiss mountains, about 70km from my hometown.
http://www.drs.ch/www/de/drs/nachrichten/regional/bern-freiburg-wallis/297252.hoechstgelegene-windturbine-europas-steht-im-wallis.html )))

in our area autumn begins to change the colour of the landscapes - that's the season i love most.
from former photos in your blog i know it's much more colorful in your area - i hope you'll enjoy it when the time has come ...

my best wishes, eve

yuko nagai said...

hi Eve-

thank you for coming by as always...
and for your kind words.
you are spot on: i was there before the dawn (with a sewing body...) in fact. the dune gets pretty windy later in the day as well as crowded so it was perfect.

and congrats! for the power plant launch near you- the place looks crystalline beautiful. at 2.5km up, you get lots of wind i'd imagine. for the ones in tottori, they are importing parts from germany i heard. the place gets windy and cold in winter.

posting scent will be the homework for all the techy geniuses out there. damp, salty summer ocean scent is something i would love to share with everyone in the world. one day, hopefully.

wishing you a beautiful autumn at your corner of the blue planet,
yuko ;^]

Jo Normal said...

I really really like how that dress turned out. The red trim is perfect.

yuko nagai said...

Hey Jo,
Thankyu!!
Really glad you liked it---
;^] y