Aiko's Gallery - Japanese Paper Products

Aiko is a wonderful woman - very talented and a great steward of the Earth!  She talks easily about anything in the world and is well traveled ~ but one thing she holds close to her chest is her technique for making Japanese Paper!  She would not share a word about it with me and worked on it behind closed doors for the two weeks I was with her.  The only 'proof' that I knew she was working on it was a few days I saw she had some new pieces out drying in the sun.

OK - it's her secret and her passion - enough said!

She also has various other artist's work on display in her gallery which is in her home.  The gallery will not be open until the season starts at the end of March.  But it is clean - I cleaned it - and had a wonderful time arranging price tags in Japanese that I am sure did not match the piece!  Who cares ~ it looked nice to me!  (Aiko will do the fine tuning and make sure that everything is right - I'm sure!)

At first I was uncertain about all of the little ceramic characters that are made by her good girlfriend, but as I cleaned them and really noticed the detail in them I really became quite fond of them!!! Very unique and very whimsical ~ rather delightful.

I pray that Aiko's gallery has a very successful year!