The Deshima AIR (Artist In Residence) project is an initiative to promote the cultural exchange between the Netherlands and Japan.
Today I joined “NATUUR & MILIEU MARKT”.
I had a booth to arrange ikebana flower and
give my information about my flower exhibition in Jun!
Many people showed their interest and it was very encouraging for me!
It was also fun to see around other booths about nature and water!
When I leaver there after my summer holiday when I was 19.
When I opened the door to go out,
I found rabbits at my feet!
Mayu, who is living upstairs, left them.
She said she got many chocolates of Easter in her working place.
Surprise will be the special present!
I could only bite their bottom!
I started my day with happiness with these sweet rabbits!
Thank you Mayu,
What am I going to leave at her door?
Somehow, I don’t feel being a stranger in this city, Amsterdam.
Almost all Dutch people (also non Dutch people) talk to me naturally
in English while I just studied Dutch language a little.
I can hear many accented English in the whole city where
nobody care about my Japanese accent and broken grammar.
That makes me easier to speak English for me.
Today, my friend Martha walked around the city with me.
She went along with me and told me more.
Dutch culture is working out differences between
where they were born or their position or their age.
And she continuted telling that one idea will be at the bottom of
Holland, especially Amsterdam.
“Doe maar gewoon”
It’s a little tough for me to translate Dutch into English,
“Be natural ” or “Go to your natural way” .
Now, the city is filled of the air that they have thought so for hundreds years in Amsterdam.
If I call the air, it would be “freedom”
In this Evening, I went to her place and she cooked me “Martha dish”.
I loved it.
Amsterdam is yammy〜〜!!:D
I like domestic supermarket。Ams’smarket is very pretty.
Cheese,very lot of kind!!
I like pankake. Please teach me, your recommend.
I think eat is same sexual thing.
both,imply mean select, involve. how? whom? what ? etcetc….
Interesting thing
9/14 My presentation & relaxing discussin.
about my work &sexual education of Holland&Japan
Common! join me:D!!
※※Photo…what ate in Ams.
In japanese↓
アムスは美味しやで〜〜！！
私は土地がらのよく出たスーパーが大好き。アムスのスーパーはかわいい！
チーズの種類、ハンパないです。
パンケーキが好きに。ぜひお勧め教えてちょ。
私は食べることとセクシャルなことって似てると思う。
どちらも暗に、選ぶこと受けること、どのように？誰と？何を？などなどを意味している…。
おもしろいことだね！
9/14日プレゼンとリラクシングな座談会をします。
楽しみにきてください！
※※写真はアムスで食べたもの
Hello, I’m Hiroki Yokoyama, who stays in Amsterdam from 21st of July till 31st of August. I will hold a Green Tea Cheese Fondue Party!!
I love eating. That’s why I mix food culture and art culture for intercommunication between Holland and Japan.
It’s already passed a week, sorry for that I didn’t posted to the weblog.
I play the drums in a hard core punk band “Flat Sucks“, and sometimes do performance. I also dance in a community dance company these days, not well-trained though. But I played basket ball, base ball, and Kyudo(a kind of Japanese archery) when I was a student, so about body is interesting ever for me.
Communication is very important for my performance because I feel joy to live as a human being when I communicate with the people. Of course it’s also precious to communicate with myself and other things in the nature. My policy‘s here. I don’t care so much about the way to act if the view point is following the policy.
海外でひとり暮らしをしているときは
テーブルに花を置くようにしている。
ちょっと寂しいときに、生きものの空気があるとほっとするし
家を明るくして、テーブルを少しでも楽しい時間にするためだ。
最後のお別れを考えると、鉢植えは心が痛んでしまうので
切り花を購入している。
こういうときの花屋選びが重要で
なんだかんだいって毎週顔を合わせて花を買うわけだから
すてきな人から買いたい。
心をこめてお手入れをするかたから買う花は、長持ちする。
アムステルダムとタイを行き来しているヨガ仲間の則子さんから
Saskiaを紹介してもらった。
温かい笑顔と独特のセンスが好きで
彼女の元から花を購入することに決めた。
そうしているうちに則子さんから
ファーマーズマーケットのウェブサイトをつくるので、撮影をしてくれないか
とご提案をいただいた。
ファーマーズマーケットについてご教示いただく。
アムステルダムのニューマルクト(Nieuwmarkt)にあるファーマーズマーケットは
それぞれの農家がオーガニック商品を持ち込み、出店を置き販売している。
出店なのにクレジットカードやデビットカードの決済ができたりと
決済システムまでしっかりしている。
オランダにおけるオーガニックの基準は、とてもはっきりしていて
それ専門のスーパーマーケットもある。
私はこの辺りの事情に疎いので、撮りながら勉強をしていこうと思っていたら
則子さんがサスキアの農場に連れていってくれた。
野菜が、花が、動物が、いきいきとしていた。
一緒に野菜を摘んで、家に戻り、料理して、食べる。
自然と繋がって生きていること、生命をいただくことをじみじみと感じる。
食卓を通じて、彼女が守りたいもの、大切にしたいことが伝わってくる。
夜明け前のある日、しんとした時間帯に
撮影に向かうため、家を出る。
誰もいないけれど、まだ暗い部屋で、テーブルの花が見送ってくれた。
生活と思想が繋がったひとの花。
ありがたい。
Flower and farmer’s market
Whenever I stay overseas and live by myself,
flower is on the table.
When feeling a little lonely, breath of living nature gives relief.
It also makes a place brighter and time on the table more joyful.
Considering about the last goodbye, potted flowers might hurt my heart,
therefore I buy cut flowers.
It is very important to choose the right flower shop because you will see
them every week to buy flowers, therefore I want to to buy from wonderful
people.
Flowers coming from a person who takes care wholeheartedly, will last a
long time.
Noriko, a friend mine through yoga and goes to Amsterdam often, introduced
me Saskia.
Saskia is selling vegetables and flowers at the farmer’s market on every
Saturday.
Her flowers are all picked from her own garden, and they are vital.
Buying as buds and seeing them grow, it is fun to see daily changes.
Saskia only deals seasonal flowers
Because her style is to follow the course of nature, she takes it easy and
not looking for anything else.
When I bought hydrangea and paeoniae radix other day, it was interested to
see these flowers bloom during this season in Holland.
I like her warm smile and own taste, so I decided to buy flowers from her.
In the meantime, Noriko proposed me about taking photography for website
of the farmer’s market.
She enlightened me about the farmer’s market.
The farmer’s market at Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam is where each farmers bring
their organic products to shop and sell.
Their shops are stalls but they have firm payment system such as accepting
credit card or debit card.
The standard of organic products in Holland is very established and there
are supermarkets specialized in this field.
I was unfamiliar about these things so I was thinking about studying as
doing photography work,
but Noriko took me to Saskia’s farm one day.
Vegetables, flowers, and animals are all living lovely.
Picked vegetables together, returned to house for cooking and eating.
I keenly felt about living a life through connecting with a nature, and
having having these being.
Through a dining table, I could sense what she wants to protect and what
she cherishes.
I was leaving my house for photo shooting in the quite early morning.
Nobody was there but flowers on the table sent me off in the dark room.
Flowers from a person whose life and philosophy are connected.
It’s truly a blessing.
子供の絵はいつも、かわいい！
自由に楽しく絵を描くのって、いい。
こちらの落書きは、うすいピンクと水色が多いのは、なぜ？？
Color of the day : child’s play
ほとんどの窓枠はアウトラインのように白く塗られています。
その白が景観をシャキッとさせ、いろんな色を
つなげる役割を果たしています。
Color of the day : white
この街には、いたるところに色とりどりのブロックが
埋め込まれています。この街は本当はレゴでできているのです！
Color of the day : block