Entrevistas

1. Family that saved her belongings during World War II

2. Thriving art culture at camp

3. Leaving everything behind

4. On the process of making her leaf bowls

5. On the process of creating her Japanese paper bowls

6. From double weaving to microfilament “flat” hangings

7. Marriage to Bob Stocksdale

8. Moving to Cincinnati after Topaz

9. Learning how to weave

10. Mother also wove growing up

Sekimachi,Kay

(n. 1926) Artista

On the process of creating her Japanese paper bowls

I love paper. Paper is beautiful, just in itself. I mean, you can almost hang a piece of paper on the wall. But I think it was Signe Mayfield who was a creator at what was then the Palo Alto Art Center. She suggested that I try making a paper bowl around one of Bob's bowls, and so that's what got us started… And so I tried using Bob's bowl as a mold, and working around it, thought it was successful, and then it actually, on the market, it became very successful. We had many orders for what we called marriage sets. Customers would want one of Bob's bowls with a paper bowl that goes over it… Usually they were of Japanese papers. I loved the papers with a lot of inclusions.

artistas artes Bob Stocksdale arcos artesanato em papel

Data: November 23, 2018

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: Patricia Wakida

País: A Co-Production of the Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum and KCET

Entrevistados

Kay Sekimachi, nascida em 1926 em São Francisco, é uma artista norte-americana de fibras, mais conhecida por suas cortinas magistrais tridimensionais de monofilamento, bem como por suas intrincadas cestas e tigelas. Nascida em São Francisco, em 30 de setembro de 1926, Sekimachi foi confinada com sua família no Tanforan Assembly Center em Califórnia e depois no campo de concentração de Topaz em Utah, de 1942 a 1944. (Junho 2018)