Departire
Site specific installation at Ueno Town Art Museum, formerly Sakamoto Elementary School, for Threshold: Sustainable Art Project, Ueno/Tokyo, Japan, 2009. A response to Tokyo’s changing age
demographics that leave elementary schools vacant and shift cultural mores. Pieced from over 50
nagajugan, mostly of vintage silk from obsolete Japanese textile mills, handsewn by students and
volunteers in workshop settings.