Exhibition 2025 – Boulder Canyon Gallery: Sessa Takuma

Theme: Sessa takuma is a Japanese idiom which roughly translates to mean “to improve together through friendly rivalry by encouraging each other.”

Materials: Principle stones; sand #0-8, lacquered trays.

Tools: Uchi bane, nami bane, houki, batchi, kasumi ita

Exhibition 2024 – Boulder Canyon Gallery: Ouibatori

Theme: The natural beauty of each person’s unique path – each individual flowering in their own time, without comparison.

Materials: Principle stones; sand #0-8, lacquered trays.

Tools: Uchi bane, nami bane, houki, batchi, kasumi ita.

Exhibition 2023 – Boulder Canyon Gallery: Winter Reflection

Mountains, frozen path, & aurora borealis, and falling snowflakes.

Materials: Principle stones; coarse sand, #0 sand, Showa-era figurines, metal trays.

Tools: Uchi bane, bachi, konoha saji, kata.

WORK 03

Plum Trees

Mountains, torii gates, and blooming plum trees of early spring.

Materials: Principle stones; coarse sand, #0 sand, nejime, metal tray.

Tools: Uchi bane, suna saji, bachi, tama uchi.

WORK 04

Reflect

Mountain reflection in pond, with mist at base.

Materials: Principle stones; coarse sand, #0 sand, nejime, metal tray.

Tools: Uchi bane, suna saji.

WORK 05

Shooting Stars

Shooting stars shower over soft mountains and frozen path.

Materials: Principle stones; coarse sand, #0 sand, metal tray.

Tools: Uchi bane, suna saji, tama uchi, houki.

WORK 06

Gulls

Birds flying in foreground and background with distant misty mountains.

Materials: Principle stones; coarse sand, #0 sand, nejime, metal tray.

Tools: Uchi bane, suna saji, kasumi ita.

WORK 07

Blizzard

Blizzard falling over frozen river with small cottage and pines in background.

Materials: Principle stones; coarse sand, #0 sand, Showa-era figurines, nejime, lacquered tray.

Tools: Uchi bane, suna saji, bachi, tama uchi.