Last week was so wonderful. I had a chance to draw some--or let's say 55+ series of drawings to be displayed along with a string orchestra by AYSO. AYSO (Acacia Yuk! String Orchestra) Bandung is a community based string orchestra in Bandung. They have several programs and one of them is a children concert. This time, they played Vivaldi's Four Season and turned it into a narrative story of Elio and Basil in Four Season. This concert itself had been planned years ago, which th

I want to recollect the memory of my first public bath experience back in Osaka.
 
I always curious with the naked feeling in public. I wonder how is it like having no thread in your body but make it so usual-ubiquitous. We went to Tateba Sento around 9 PM with the last train. We got three different towels; face, body, and pad for sauna. It was so awkward at the first time when I entered the locker room. I wasn’t prepared that people already naked there that I unconsciously t

Several months ago, I got an offer to illustrate a picture book for children in Timor Leste. I was so excited since there were so many...

Birds were chirping outside and I really wanted to join them by making a little tweet sound. Not bad--in my ear at least, but in fact,...