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| A Commitment to making ecologically friendly art pieces, SANGO (Coral) | |
| Message from Naoko to Save Beach Assets | |
| For Naoko, the SANGO (Coral) series of artwork is the first step for spreading a new method of an ecologically friendly approach to art creation while protecting the natural assets, especially ocean and beach assets. This project is also aimed to suggest a new direction for supporting the local economy of rural areas of developing nations and small islands of the world, not by selling their precious beach resources bit by bit but as an alternative way of income without loosing the beach assets. |
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| 1. | To create artwork by using nature materials, without changing the original shapes, cutting, polishing, or adding color on or to them. After the completion of the artwork, whole images are then photographed. |
| 2. | All artwork is created by using water-soluble glue for easy disassembly, and then returned to their original locations after being photographed. The same natural assets can be used over and over again for generations, by the local people. |
| 3. | All the artwork will be introduced only by the mixed media artwork of photographs and other digitally processed images, so the natural assets will not be endangered even if the artwork increases in popularity. |
| 4. | Naoko uses only the gBleached Coralh(not live) washed on shore for SANGO artwork. Bleached coral (white coral) is often quoted as an indicator of global warming and changing ocean environment. (When water temperatures rise one to two degrees above average, the colorful plant part of the coral gets booted out, leaving it appearing bleached. Corals can recover, but if the heat persists, or if bleaching happens too frequently, they die.) From this reason, she is using bleached corals as a symbolic icon for appealing to everyone to respectfully preserve beach resources and beautiful coral reefs of the world. |
| 5. | Beach resources are not her only consideration. She is also working on her next art creation utilizing the same concept by using the nature resources in mountains and rivers. |
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| e-mail: nso@naoko-art.com phone: 206-854-3395 Fax: 206-577-3809 |
Naoko-Art P.O.Box 134 Redmond, WA 98073-0134 |
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