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Chanced upon this timeless article from an old Axis magazine quite some time ago, and finally, we have some time to share it with you today …

This hole in a sink is like a substitute player for the drain hole that takes the main role. It watches, bored from the upper deck, with its mouth open, as the heroic act of the leading character is displayed in center stage. Just because it doesn’t actually have to go on stage, it can’t be irritated and close its mouth. To be fully prepared for those unexpected situations, it has to stand by without sleep. That’s why we can’t blame it for yawning, or sighing once in a while. But when someone plugs the drain, the situation changes drastically. Staring at the steadily rising water and feeling like backing off, it has to stand firm for the crucial stage as there’s no substitute for the substitute, and starts gulping while fully prepared to drown if necessary. This is the moment when its unceasing effort finally pays off. Looking at the water flowing into this hole, though, gives us the illusion that the water takes a different route from the drainpipe to be hushed up in a black hole. The key player that saved us from the peril of flooding is now applauded and a small Cinderella story results. Take a snap shot of its proud moment flanked by the faucet and liquid soap dispenser. It now looks like a different “person”.

- Text by Nobuyuki Imai

- Photo by Hisakazu Shimizu

Axis Vol.112 ,December 2004

Divya Ponda, Age 4

Shawna Tay, Age 7

Dominique Huang, Age 4

Chloe Kor, Age 6

Naina Tanaja, Age 4

Choo Jing Xian, Age 10

Arianna Yu, Age 6

Please make some time to visit this exhibition.

The works are beautiful, and most of them will make us adults feel ashamed of ourselves.

On a better note, at least we know that we were once potential artists!

Date: 1st - 20th April 2010

Time: 11am - 7pm

Venue: The Arts House ( free admission)

Organised by: Art Zone

We Sink Ships (WSS) is a collaboration featuring Heidi Kuisma, a Finnish, Glasgow based photographer and Neil Milton, a Scottish photographer, musician and record label owner living in Warsaw in Poland. Together they create and curate online photo exhibitions and present We Sink Ships Radio, a series of weekly podcasts hosted on Radio Magnetic, an online radio station dedicated to quality, underground, independent, alternative music and one of the UK’s top five internet radio stations since it began in early 2001.

We Sink Ships Gallery was born of a desire to showcase and promote work by talented and zealous emerging photographers from around the world. In their selection process for images and now also for poetry, We Sink Ships, being completely self tought themselves, values passion over education and enthusiasm over expensive equipment; you don’t have to be an art school graduate or own the latest camera to be included in one of the exhibitions.

H O K O has been kindly invited to contribute a selection of photos for their latest online photography exhibition titled :

In Transit (1st - 30th April 2010 )

Hello, we are in the middle of re-constructing the site. Be nice!

more info here

We have finally developed some photos documented from our site-specific installation at Prints, held in conjunction with the Singapore Design Festival ‘09 for the exhibition entitled ‘ A R R A N G I N G ‘ by Atelier HOKO. More photos of the exhibition to come soon. Enjoy!

STATIONERY-WARE
Atelier HOKO + Takeshi Kuboi

This installation is articulating the relationship humans have with stationery and tableware. Both families of objects co-exist on the same landscape: a table.  If we were to look at how we use and relate to these two different families of objects, we will soon realize that our actions are very similar and connected. These semblances are not indicative of any formal relation between the objects but do share with us some quiet information on the way we behave with these tools when arranged together on the table.

tableware by:

stationery by:

planto, plantu, planta.

sake from christmas gift exchange

biscuit + brush

artifacts list

earth + moon music box

bottle drops

multi-purpose brush hanging from our tree

wooden pear, tea cup made of tea leaves + 2 hardened brushes.

mini guava

studio building in progress … we want some big plants!