#From the window of an airplane

[kojiarakiartworks]

June 2012 KTM Kathmandu  Nepal

© KOJI ARAKI Art Works

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

[uniories]

Sunset (2023)

[dailykoffink]

day 78 (of drawing koffin-k daily until ts!underswap fully releases): WE'RE GONNA CRAAAAASSHH!!!!!!

[pamietniko]

dusk

Earth

[icewindandboringhorror]

It's always interesting to hear about people's weird/unexpected "alternate life paths". Like, something that you could have done with your life, a job you almost took, a school you almost went to, etc - that was still actually realistic enough that it could have happened, but NOW it seems to not suit your current personality.

Like for example, I currently hate advertising (how manipulative it is, brands trying to be 'relatable', social media amplifying it to an obnoxious extreme, etc.) so much that even seeing a little ad before a youtube video is grating to even witness, but there was a point in time where I was genuinely seriously considering going into marketing/making commercials as a career lol. Or like, I have a relative who was very inclined to be a pastor when they were younger, even though today they're a super strong atheist, etc. etc.

[daisywords]

mountain study

[textless]

Phone pictures: Tucson to Portland via Salt Lake, March 2023.

[thorsenmark]

Looking Out a Plane Window on a Flight to Brooks Camp by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: An easily mesmerizing plane window view I had looking to the southeast with King Salmon and then across portions of Katmai National Park off in the distance.

[longlistshort]

Jack Shainman Gallery is currently showing two bodies of work by Leslie Wayne for her exhibition This Land.  One half of the show is paintings based on photos she took of landscapes from an airplane window while traveling from New York to the Seattle. Abstract work influenced by aspects of the natural world makes up the other half.

In a recent interview with designboom, Wayne was asked how perception and memory influenced her process for this work-

Perception is just an interpretation really, of what one sees, and while the paintings in ‘This Land is Your Land’ series were made directly from the photographs I took on a flight to the Pacific Northwest, they are infused with the feelings and memories I hold dear of my childhood. I’ve lived in New York since 1982, but I grew up in California and I still have a very strong attachment to the West Coast and to the geology and geography of the West. Even the abstract work in which I am manipulating thick layers of paint, I am drawing on those sensations I remember having of being in nature where the tectonic and geologic forces are right there for one to see and feel — millions of years of layered strata, of compression and subduction, of gravity and erosion, and certainly of the shifting plates that cause earthquakes.

More on the show from the press release-

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present This Land, an exhibition of two kindred bodies of work by Leslie Wayne that express the nature of the American West through perception and memory. In each piece, Wayne considers different ways in which we interpret and imagine geological space, exploring landscape both as a vertical, abstracted force and a horizontal, figurative expanse. Named in homage to Woody Guthrie’s heartland ballad “This Land is Your Land,” Wayne offers a contemporary vision of Manifest Destiny—imbuing her symbolic, and experienced, westward voyages with topographies that are sensorial, memorial, and tectonic.

In a series of dimensional abstract paintings on large, metronome-like planks, Wayne uses a dramatic and vibrant palette to mold paint so that it cascades down the wood panel in a multitude of ways. Applying the paint in heavy layers, she encourages the influence of gravity and refines her materials to their most basic form, color, and behavior. Adopting, rather than controlling the rhythm of nature, these compositions are fluid to the viewer’s myriad associations with this image of momentum—be it reminiscent of the rush of an avalanche, the swell of hot lava, or the pileup of driftwood on a seashore.

In her series entitled This Land is Your Land, she creates compact, observational paintings based on snapshots she took from her seat as she flew west over the Rocky Mountains all the way to the Cascade Range in Washington State in 2021. Creating a precise mise-en-scène by placing each painting in a frame that resembles the Boeing 737 window she peered out from, Wayne transports her viewers into a precise sensation: beholding our nation as the land settles into one continuous, harmonious expanse—stripped down to simple shapes and shades. Her portholes offer a view into a terrain of awe, reminiscence, and omniscience, a collective vision of a region fraught with, and fractured by, territories and borders.

Extending beyond the format of the airplane-window frame, Wayne has also created two unique works inspired by the same journey. The first is a twenty-two-foot-long painted scroll entitled From the Rockies to the Cascades, in addition to High Dive, a large-format painting in which she stretches her canvas onto a frame of coiled springs—materials that simulate a bird’s-eye view of the landscape as if seen by a skydiver descending towards a trampoline. The paintings from this series are accompanied by a vitrine displaying Wayne’s special limited edition This Land, a handmade accordion book that illustrates the aerial photographs from her voyage, alongside Taylor Brorby’s poem “The Ages Have Been at Work” and the lyrics to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.”

In German, heimat is a term used to describe not only the characteristics of a place, but the complex and interdependent physical, social, and mental associations with a homeland. For Wayne, this sentiment stretches, folds, and bends from the west coast, her childhood home, to the east coast, where she has resided since 1982. Treading across this land, psychic routes unfold, and Wayne savors “That path [which] is never straight and always various, each time opening new ways of seeing and thinking about the world we occupy, the ways we inhabit nature, and the legacies we leave behind.”

[russell-crowe]

thinking about taking the 6am flight from malta to catania last summer and finally seeing my first classic stratovolcano in person. life changing moment to see that from the airplane window - and to later be on the flanks.

[tragedyofoptimism]

[kojiarakiartworks]

June 2012 BKK Bangkok Thailand

© KOJI ARAKI Art Works

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

[moonsidesong]

i think its kinda funny that ibis paint is regarded as the Broke Artist App or whatever (as opposed to more mainstream programs like csp or procreate) because its free and because of how popular it is with phone + finger artists while im jusg sitting here having used ibis for a cool eight years on purpose.

like i have an ipad and an apple pencil and all theyre very nice and i absolutely could move to a more powerful program i have the resources to do so but my change averse brain has decided they like it here a lot and im not leaving

[imfuckingwasted]

Flying over Arizona

[garoujo]

eeep!! emmie holiday 2023 is in full swing!!! ꒰♡˃̶̤́ ꒳ ˂̶̤̀ ꒱ i hope you have a super safe flight & that you & your fam (& nagi heeheh ( •ॢ◡-ॢ)-♡) have the most fun EVER!! (੭ु ›ω‹ )੭ु⁾⁾♡ this is me sending you off w all of my love!! happy travels bby!! <33 smooches 4 you!! mwah!!

weeeee emmie jetset era is beginning !!! ꒰੭⸝⸝´`⸝⸝꒱੭ fank u fank u my luvrrr i have my lil ipad at the ready w my neck pillow i am soooo ready ! i will make sure to take loads of pics for u guys so it’s like ur right there w me :3 fank u for alllll of the love i will use it like a huge cosy blanket on the flight <333 SMOOCHING U SO HARD ! adoring u sm !!!

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