Summer Indigo and Persimmon Dyeing and Atomic Dog Forgiveness

 A single lotus blooms for two days and is followed by another. Ogata san came by for some extra indigo dying with a few of her great grandchildren yesterday. They have the same life force as her.

Kamei san finished this huge patterned mokume shawl. A  lot of work, a lot of patience. Beautiful piece. Kelp under the waves motif.

This persimmon piece used an old stencil I cut with more seaweed designs. Seven separate persimmon coatings and 14 days in the sun. These  stencils can be used over and over again. I let students use them and it gives me extra pleasure to see their work with them.

The bill collector came from Tokyo Denryoku, the operator of the nuclear power plants that melted down.  Love these guys. 7000 million yen spent a year on advertising in every magazine, newspaper, and TV station, radio station and Internet site in the country.  Great way to guarantee that there is never a single word ever spoken or written about the dangers of nuclear power. They just pull the advertising income from the  media company. Like Toshiba and every other manufacturer of nuclear reactor parts.

 I suppose Geiger's previous owners who were forced to evacuate suddenly without any idea why (Nuclear power is safe, no other information was available, god forbid a school textbook might mention it either.) leaving their dog behind to fend for himself. Here the bill collector has come and I asked if I could take his picture with my new dog. I didn't mention that Geiger is a refugee from Fukushima but my students seemed a little uncomfortable with me having a little fun with the camera, the nuked dog and the electricity bill collector. Distrust and then forgiveness....Geiger you are a better dog than I am human.