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playing in the dirt

playing in the dirt

February 23–24 / March 23–24, 2019

VILLAGE TENNOZ (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan / Tennozu, Tokyo, Japan)

Length: 4300mm

soil, etc.

Workshops using soil were held at Tennozu Isle and Shibuya Hikarie.
Participants walked around Tennozu Isle, collected soil, and made paints with children by touching and observing the soil.
The production site was open to the public for about a week, and visitors to the event were free to participate in the work. Sugisaki was also asked to paint freely. Sugisaki would then draw again in response.

She would engage in a bee-bee fight with strangers with her drawings. Sweating, laughing, and smiling, she said, "You did it! This one goes like this! She was sweating, laughing, and saying to herself, "This one goes like this!

The work flowed like a river through the event hall, and the adults laughed with the children as they crossed the river. At the end of the event, a bridge was built over the river, merging with the house of the artist who was holding a house-building workshop and the house of the gallery.

playing in the dirt

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