This book celebrates a number of artistic endeavours: music,
painting and the skill of making in general with particular
reflection upon Japanese aesthetics. Composer, Monty Adkins and
visual artist, Pip Dickens (through a Leverhulme Trust Award
collaboration) investigate commonality and difference between the
visual arts and music exploring aspects of rhythm, pattern, colour
and vibration as well as outlining processes utilised to evolve new
works within these practices. The hand-cut paper Katagami stencil:
a beautiful utilitarian object once used to apply decoration on to
Japanese kimonos, is used as a poignant symbol the hand-made
machine - by Adkins and Dickens both within the production of
paintings and sound compositions and as a thematic link throughout
the book. The book reviews examples of a number of contemporary
artists and craftspeople and their individual approaches to making
things well. It explores the balance between hand skills and
technology within a works production with particular reference to
Richard Sennetts review of material culture in The Craftsman.
Shibusa includes contributing essays by arts writer, Roy Exley, who
examines convergence and crossover within the arts and an in-depth
history, and review, of the kimono making industry by Kyoto
designer, Makoto Mori.
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