About the Videos

2007 KOKO TO SOKO
On May 6, 2007 the opening reception for Green Machine at The Schuylkill Center took place. At approximately 7:45 in the evening on Sunday here, and 8:45 on Monday morning in Japan, percussionists Toshi Makihara and Chikara Miura were ready to create music from opposite sides of our planet. Using mostly sticks and stones, and other natural found objects as instruments, they improvised an original piece of music for the occasion. The performance builds slowly, with the birds sitting in as chorus, and ends in a dynamic climax of percussive energy.

2006 City Root
I designed this sculpture with a crystal clear plastic cube. Sitting in a garden, the object seems like a giant ice cube captured a root. Inside of the root system can be seen more obvious by the Crystal plastic capturing technique. This enables the sculpture to be more physically interactive.

2003 Melody
In January 2000, I visited a forest in Ryugasaqki-city in Japan. The area had just been decided to be developed as a city park project. Many of the trees were marked wityh tape, which meant those trees would be cut off for the project. I made an art installation in the forest using tree rubbings on Washi paper, which were hung in the forest over a lenght of 57 meters. In February, 2003, I visited the same area in Japan. It is still under construction, and the forest seemed dry. However, some of the trees had survived. I covered those trees with Washi paper and rubbed the surface with charcoal. These transformed Washi papers were brought to the United States and were pasted onto the piano, which is seen in this show, "Melody".

2002 IMAGINA
Miyamori presented a 1-ton, 5-foot root. The bricks, metal and glass scraped out from the root were also shown. The gallery has a high ceiling and window, which Ms. Miyamori used with a prism to reflect light from the sun. A swing, suspended from the ceiling, guides you to imagine another world. A video documentary by Abbe Klebanoff was also shown.

2001 Typewriter Energy
This video was showed in my exhibition “Typewriter – Energy 2002” in Philadelphia, PA

1999 Keiko in the forest
This video was showed in my exhibition “Images of Nature 2000” in Harlem, NY