Mika Horie is a talented artist who is "interested in making the viewer forget about time and cultural differences" based in rural Yamanaka*, Ishikawa.
Mika makes beautiful washi paper using traditional Japanese techniques of boiling, stripping, soaking and pounding Gampi weeds into pulp which creates a beautiful washi paper with interesting texture and color variation. https://www.mikahorie.art/
Everything about her process is sustainable, circular and in balance with nature. Mika moved to a rural home near a forest where she can harvest gampi weeds, and situated next to the river outside her home where she can use the water for the process. She then pounds the pulp with old Japanese tools and prints landscapes and parts of nature onto the paper exposed using only sunshine.
Mika joined the talkshow last year and has published a book and done some exhibitions she will tell us about in this follow-up and catch up interview. Watch the first interview with sustainable artist Mika Horie in March 2021: https://youtu.be/mf6w78BZJFg
Mika is in the "Yamanaka (Middle-Mountain) Onsen" Town area of Ishikawa Prefecture https://goo.gl/maps/EpR3qcyQecaiSdmz9
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About the Seek-Sustainable-Japan Host:
JJWalsh is a Hiroshima-based sustainability-focused consultant & content creator who hosts the weekly "Seeking Sustainability LIVE in Japan" talkshow and podcast - interviews with "Good People doing Great Things to keep People-Planet-Profit in balance."
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My name is Hana Victoria, and I am a Japanese-American singer songwriter who dreams of inspiring, encouraging and empowering others through my music. Every word, melody, and visual comes straight from my heart, and I hope they influence you in some positive way :)
