L'enfant qui rêve @ Moerenuma Park, Sapporo Japan
About three weeks ago, I finally paid a visit to Moerenuma Park in Sapporo Japan, a multi acre creation by the late Modernist Isamu Noguchi; filled with earthworks, museums, parks and a French restaurant called: L'enfant qui rêve. Link to Moerenuma Park I've been researching the life of Isamu Noguchi for four years now for a sound-based project I'm working on. I needed to make a field recording at the park and was able to successfully do that. I had read all about the park but nothing prepared me for the experience. It's a monumental expression of Noguchi's vision and a direct manifestation of his life as Japanese-American/ Japanese diaspora. As a young adult, Noguchi was mentored by Rosanji, the legendary artist, ceramicist and culinary original. Roasanji founded the first high-end Japanese restaurant in Tokyo and one of the many things he started was this idea that Japanese traditional cuisine should be presented in vessels that celebrate the food. After walkin...
