airport bound to Minamisoma
airport bound fukushima minamisoma destination from splendor to devastation? on the way to the airport a cow quartet lush grass banquet white and black easy eating repose green grass mouths diamond...
ITE #3. Alpo Koivumäki and his Alpon Savaani.
ITE #3. Alpo Koivumäki and his Alpon Savaani. Finnish Contemporary Folk Art Take the gentle 2 lane highway that swerves out of Karvia's undulating golden wheat fields, through forests of innumerable...
ITE Report #2 Finland. Contemporary Folk Art
On my day off from performing in the Jacobs Dagen week in Pietarsaari, I head up to Kokola on an ITE pilgrimage as I have heard that there is a museum there dedicated exclusively to ITE-the...
ITE. Contemporary Folk Art in Finland
One never knows where the winds of this Mr. YooWho's Summer Holiday Finnish tour will lead. One of the first performances is at the wonderful Vanha Savu Art Gallery in Merikarvia, an older wooden...
Sand Mandela.Swept Away
At the "Change Your Mind" festival in Oosterpark in Amsterdam last weekend, a group of Tibetan monks created a Sand Mandala and then swept it away. I arrived late afternoon and caught the...
Birdmen or Clowns ? Museo d’Oro Bogota
I was inspired by a recent visit to the Gold museum in Bogota, a truly amazing collection of artifacts from history. Paticularly intriguing were the bird-men displayed. Most of them had...
Human Pyramids: “Castels” in Catalonia
Human Pyramids !! In Catalonia, one of the great traditions are the Castellars, the clubs in many towns that sport teams who climb towards the sky. I have been so lucky to witness these teams in...
Deperate Men. The Fountain
The small town of Amersfoort in the Netherlands. A street theater festival in the late 1980's. the English Street Theater group Desperate Men have a theater piece moving through canals and streets,...
Kosovar Plis. In search of White hats
A search through boxes of 5 by 7 black and white prints that are stacked high on shelves behind this keyboard have lead me to numerous old stories. With the goal of sharing a few, here's one from my...