Mika KAWAUCHI
The orginal japanise version
http://www.1101.com/planet/index.html
Feelers on the Move in Icelandic Lava
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on your creation?
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Seekers
http://www.art.net/~stina/Influences/IncluencesOnSculptures.html
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It can been seen in your work made that same year; especially in the series "Feelers".
As a creator, do you think that "being a famale" is a merit?
for example, viewed from an experience of childbirth and so on.
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(www.mpt.go.jp/eng/Resources/top.htm).
that Iceland leads the world in the number of internet users.
This number is over twice of our country!
Do you think that internet is useful for your daily life?
How do you mainly use the internet ; e-mail only? net surfing,..?
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Being able to send e-mail and surf is very important to me. I have been able to keep much more contact with my homecountry by e-mailing sometimes every day to my parents. Some friends would have been completely lost to me in the 10 years I have lived abroad if I had not keept in contact by sending them pictures of my growing family and written them about the things I and my family were up to.
The web has given me a very broad view of what is out there. Helped me to let people like you to know of my existance.
I probably spend average about 1-4 hours a day in front of the computer and that is most often to read or write e-mails, serching the web for things that are art related in some way that I might want to add to my site or I can somehow use. Then I do work on my web site alot or other artrelated things.
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both Iceland and Japan are island countries.
Unfortunately japanese people hardly know your country.
But we might have something in common; as islanders.
Could you please introduce your country to the japanese people.
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Well I have not lived there the last 10 years but I go home on a regular basis. It is a small community that has to live in a rather hard enviroment. It is never really cold there but also never hot. What I miss the most is the long summer nights. Here I can get daylight maximum to about 9pm in the summer but in Iceland haveing daylight at night time during the prittiest time of the year you are bound to spend much more time out doors in nature. Fish is another thing I miss from Iceland. You can get it soo fresh there.
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since you were established.
Can you name a couple that impressed you?
For example, a person whom you could have only meet on the web,
because of living so far-away, and so on?
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Yes my site has gotten lots of visitors specially in the last 3 years or so. So it has been very benefitial to have one.The main reason for the bump up of visitors is because I have been very busy linking my page. Because of it I have been asked to be in art books and magazines, been interview by art students and researchers that would never had known about me if they only had regular art books. I have become friends with artists that have found me through my site. Asked for slides to show in lectures or been asked to give lectures. Galleries and collectors come by and ask for or about work. So I have to say it was a good idea to start this site in 1996 and keep it going.
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What was your yesterday's dinner ?
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Well you hit on a good day.
I like to be inventive and because I have some problems with dairy products, beef and tomatoes but love lasagne and also like indian food. I came up with a version that contains both and tastes good. Just try it.
http://www.art.net/~stina/recipes/IndianLasagnaRecipe.html
For desert we had an icelandic rye soup. It is also very good.
http://www.art.net/~stina/Influences/RyeBreadRecepyForRyeSoup.html
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Many japanese people, many whom you will never meet are going to visit your site.
Do you have a message to them?
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http://www.art.net/~stina/OtherLinks.html
The day after I sent these above questions to Mika I found a really interesting site.
I therefore add that to my answer to question 8.
It shows very high class modern art and arcitecture and more good art related stuff.