1984_03 The Daily Collegian March 1984

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Japanese student turns paper bags into art
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The American consumer may associate
a paper bag with carrying home groceries,
and once it's emptied, with carting out the
garbage.
But CSUF Art Graduate Toru Naka-
tani chose the paper bag as a medium to
express a segment of his life in his work "A
Month." which will be on exhibit April 13
through May 27 at the Laguna Gloria Art
Museum in Austin, Texas.
"A Month" is composed of 30 paper
bags, each with a silkscrcen imprint of the
date on the outside and ihe day's edition
of Thc Fresno Bee transferred on thc
inside, cataloging a 30-day month.
"It is a kind of diary. I was living in
Fresno then, and it is my life in that time
span lhal I show in mv work." he said.
The 37-year-old Na'katani, once a graphic artist for Kusumoto Neon in Osaka.
Japan, said with a laugh, "my friends look
al the paper bags and Ihey see garbage
bags too. they don't see art." Yet he
appears unaffected by the viewer's conception of his works.
"Once I complete my works, they are
independent. Art is self-interpretive. Each
person can interpret it in their own way."
Several of Nakatani's works will be on
exhibit around the country this year. His
work has been accepted into three of four
competitions he has recently entered.
Nakatani said he was drawn to studying
fine arts in the U nited States as he learned
'They don _ understand what
I'm doing. I tried to explain,
but I gave up.'
—Nakatani
o appreciate American graphic arts,
sorked seven years as a graphic art
hen as a freelance designer and illustra
n Japan for three years.
n.lyo
wald Center for the Graphic Arts at the
University, of California, Los Angeles
throujgh April 15.
The two pieces of the work each measure 12-and-one-half-foot square and are
composed of 900 cards in 23 colors, each
color assigned a word from a poem. "It
depicts the transformation of a concrete
image to an abstract image by thc language system," Nakatani explained.
The concrete image is Brooke Shields'
face, chosen because he considers her
"beautiful." The position of the colored
cards is determined by the natural color of
the face, and because the word assigned to
each color is arbitrary, il creates a "pattern of meaning," he said.
In the abstract image, each word becomes part of a sentence, which creates a
"pattern of color determined by chance
within the system of language," said Naka-
"Transformation"will be shown along
with works from 28 other artists chosen
for the Eighth National Exhibition, sponsored by the Los Angeles Printmaking
Society. Nakatani competed against 335
other applicants, and only 70 of the 3,000
works entered will be shown.
Before Nakatani began his study at
CSUF, earning a B.A. in both Art and
Linguisticsin 1981,and an M.A.in Art in
1983, he had to learn the English language. He began studying in his early 30s
what was to him a foreign language.
Although he said he cannot speak English very well, he utilizes English in his
works because he understands its grammar better than Japanese grammar.-
He explores what he calls the "ambiguous" meaning of thc word "zone" in- his
work of the same title, which was on
exhibit February 6 through March 2at the
Fourteenth Annual National Print and
Drawing Exhibition, held at thc Dakota
Northwestern University in Minot. North
Dakota.
Nakatani said his wife and family "don't
i doing. I tried
ut I gave up.'
ving his Master's degree last
lecember, Nakatani is now considered as
a student in practical training." which
rcsno. But he isn't sure how much longer
"The problem is I can't slay here former,"he said. Theonly way Nakatani said
e could slay longer than another year in
le United Slates would be to change his
•Garden
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"When there is a desperate need, compromises can be made," he said, "but this
is not intended to be a green light for
anybody lo come in and take land left and
right."
Construction of the Botanical Gardens,
tan plant collection, is a costly
project. Although Norsworthy said he
it of compromise in doesn't have a good basis for making
o build thc structure here." financial estimates regarding the project,
orsworthy said. "The grounds will not ultimately, he said, figures should be in
: able to be developed in the near future,    the hundreds of thousands.
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March 19,1984
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Luptto Flor _ of McUne High School
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Unified City High School Honor Band
backing him up. Top high school
muilclcmns gathered this weekend for
clinics that ended with a concert Sunday evening.
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