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室礼

SHITSURAI

Visionary shitsurai

Within the traditional Kyoto machiya townhouse, which is both a dwelling and an embodiment of Japanese spirit and imagination, shitsurai aspires to create a new way of thinking and style of beauty to heal the frayed roots of human culture past and present, East and West.

 

 Transcultural shitsurai 

Popular not only among Japanese, the sensibilities and ideas of shitsurai also inspire many foreigners. The prospect of exploring new realms of spiritual harmony and integration beyond modernist pragmatism appeals to creative people whatever their origins or personal backgrounds.

 Corollaries to shitsurai 

Utterly removed from status, fame and power, the immediate tasks of shitsurai help bridge sight and thought, sensibilities and ideas toward building faith in our humanity.

While bearing in mind the overall whole, each creates a space to freely exert one's own individual strengths, challenge one's imagination, and revere one's creativity. Likewise, share experiences and evaluate honestly without competing in number, volume or scale so as to create something that entices, embraces and arouses people through mutual play.

Excessive ostentation and desire for self-recognition are not conducive to creating artworks or spaces.

Ideas and sensibility are of prime importance in vitalizing places and things. Rigorous attention and dilligent interaction are essential to harmonizing person to person, person to place, person to artworks, and artwork to artwork.

Go forth and put your body to work. No intellectualized theory, just create and adjust by physically feeling your way.

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