Ai no Keshiki (Indigo Views) 藍のけしき

Keshiki in Japanese has many meanings. At first a scenic view, keshiki is also the experience of wabi-sabi as found in the accumulated patinas on a tea bowl or a long-treasured tool. As these slow changes accrue on a surface over time, they provide a view of the internal experience of the things around us, an insight into ourselves as much as the objects we surround ourselves with. In the summer of 2017, over 400 people from around the world volunteered to participate in the making of Ai no Keshiki-Indigo Views, this year’s Awa Indigo Art Project.

Each participant has spent the past five months living with a small length of cloth dyed with Awa Indigo, the rich blue dye of Tokushima. Looking out from the small hole in its box, each indigo cloth experienced daily life with one of the participants, and slowly, over this time, a new “view” has been forming.

In January 2018, the individual cloths will be brought together from around the world and assembled into an installation to share their Indigo Views with us.

Made in Collaboration with: 451 participants from 10 countries
Artistic Direction: Rowland Ricketts rickettsindigo.com
Sound Composition: Norbert Herber