{"id":59,"date":"2008-02-28T23:59:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T23:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=59"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:07:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:07:39","slug":"takashi-iwasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2008\/02\/28\/takashi-iwasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Takashi Iwasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/113.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Harikmodome, thread and canvas<\/h5>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/114.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Denshinhappa, thread and canvas<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takashiiwasaki.info\/takashiiwasaki\/index.html\">Takashi Iwasaki<\/a> moved to Canada from Japan five years ago, and also runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takashiiwasaki.info\/semaigallery\/index.html\">Semai Gallery<\/a> in Winnipeg. I don&#8217;t remember where I heard of him before, but I was reminded again of his works in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designspongeonline.com\/2008\/02\/takashi-iwasaki.html\">Design Sponge&#8217;s post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/111.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Failure, mixed media on paper<\/h5>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/115.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>From left: Dancingtothedoorway, colored pencil, graphite; Matissehaus, colored pencil, graphite<\/h5>\n<p>His pieces are playful and whimsical, expressing positive feelings with the consideration on the formal qualities of shape, color, composition and space. I particularly feel his embroideries, collages and abbie drawings &#8212; a generalized nickname for Iwasaki&#8217;s abstract drawings and a play on the word <em>ab<\/em> -stract &#8212; are fantastically inspiring.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/112.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Takashi&#8217;s sketchbook from Book By It&#8217;s Cover<\/h5>\n<p>And there&#8217;s his sketchbook that Julia has featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.book-by-its-cover.com\/sketchbooks\/sketchbook-series-takashi-iwasaki\">Books By It&#8217;s Cover&#8217;s Sketchbook Series.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a treat! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Takashi Iwasaki\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2008\/02\/28\/takashi-iwasaki\/\" aria-label=\"More on Takashi Iwasaki\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27932,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/27932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}