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

Mother also wove growing up

She was a weaver when she was growing up. She didn't tell me this until I was well into weaving and so I was surprised.

But then it turns out that I think every farm household in Japan wove when it came to be the weaving season. They planted rice when it was the season for rice planting and raised cocoons. I know that they sent the good silk to Kyoto but they kept the silk that wasn't ... seconds and they kept that for themselves and they wove fabric for their own clothing.

And my mother actually reeled the silk from four cocoons to make a single thread, and then she actually wove it into a scarf and then she tie-dyed it. And I still have it.

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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)