Etsuko tashima biography of michael

Post a Comment. The three small sculptures that make up A Flow resemble a fleet of little boats sailing beneath the waves or, in light of some recent reading, I like to imagine them carrying the twigs that bowerbirds use to create their fantastical architectural displays.

Etsuko Tashima eceived a Medal with Dark Blue Ribb Currently lives and works in Osaka.

And why not? Twigs are not always straight; we learn from nature that a branch grows straight unless an imbalance of forces produces a curve. It was the mixture of shapes, some from nature and some imagined that first drew me to the Japanese artist Tashima Etsuko. A strict dichotomy between humans and the rest of the natural world is no longer tenable but we should not mourn its passing.

Present Professor of Osaka University of Arts B.A. of Ceramics Course from Osaka University of Arts Born in Osaka, Japan Solo Exhibitions Etsuko Tashima: Flowers .

Evolution is both fact and theory. And the basic theory is not survival of the fittest but rather survival of the good enough because perfection, by definition, would limit the diversity on which all survival ultimately depends. Arbitrary or random mutation is a mechanism, not an explanation. Flowers grope in the same darkness, encounter the same obstacles and the same ill will, in the same unknown.

They know the same laws, same disappointments, same slow and difficult triumphs. It seems they have our patience, our perseverance, our self-love; the same finely tuned and diversified intelligence, almost the same hopes and the same ideals. Like ourselves, they struggle against a vast indifferent force that ends by helping them. Although it was primarily his plays and poems that earned Maurice Maeterlinck the Nobel Literature Prize in , it is for his widely admired nature essays that he is remembered now, particularly The Life of the Bee and The Intelligence of Flowers We are of the same world, we are almost among equals.