Japan

Tokyo

The journey begins in Japan, with Tokyo as the first stop. The background has dark green and dark blue glazes. I used a real luggage label on the left, and strung beads to spell out Tokyo on the right, along with travel brochure images.

Kyoto

The Golden Pavilion in Kyoto is quite a tourist site. I was lucky enough to find two images of it in two separate travel brochures. Hmp die cut tags, fibers, and the back side of pearl buttons were used as embellishments. The background is brown faux glassine paper.

Sea of Japan

This scan is a bit hard to understand because there is a fish transparency over the pearls which doesn't show up well in a scan. The left side was made using dark blue and light blue glazes applied with a sea sponge.

Mt Fuji and Hakone

The left side is a very textural spread. I first glued the image of Mt. Fuji to the page. Then I mixed Plaster of Paris with sand and pink paint, and spread it on the gessoed page. Finally, I added the words I printed.

Hakone, on the right began with dark blue glaze I spread on using a dry brush. I printed all the towns and tourist attractions on blue paper, which I also used to mat the picture. I used flat beads with oriental script as photo corners, which I applied using E6000.