Scraps that come out in the process of creating Japanese-style paintings. These scraps, embellished with gold leaf, silver leaf, and mineral pigments, are way too beautiful to be called trash. Making a collage out of the fragments of the Earth and letting them release their glows to the universe once again. To share the heart that screams “Mottainai (what a waste!),” I attach one of these scraps to my artwork. … Continue reading Nobuyo Sakakibara