6:30 to 8:30 PM

Ayako’s art combines ritual and process, through simple actions like mowing grass— familiar to many, to reveal a subtle embodiment of how human interaction with nature affects cultural identity. For Ayako, it is not mowing a lot of grass, but an expression of her concept of nature’s cycles and how cultures regenerate. Her mowing, collecting, and burning grass represents this spirit. She constructs a circular ring of bricks to contain the cut grass over a clay relief. She ignites the grass as part of a ritual and for two hours feeds grass into the ring, and as the grass burns, the clay relief hardens from the fire, transforming it into a permanent state surrounded by blackened earth.

www.age.ne.jp/x/aramaki

When you sit down to enjoy the food you prepared, does it seem your meals have lost their crisp and sparkling perfection? Has it become more dificult to retain those fluctuating friendships with your favorite recipes? Has your cooking made your body look like and your mind think like a pear? There is no need to ditch your dreams, thinking you’re stuck on stupid, staying locked and quiet in the pantry. Breakout with a copy of Thu Tran’s, edgy, punchy, recipe calendar at the Art Harvest and let it to take you to new frontiers of functional foods and beneficial bacteria. Filled with extras like; cat diet management and tips for recycling advocates, who will feel a little greener when serving corn syrup as a topping for food scraps. There’s a recipe for everyone’s taste (with or without teeth.).Below is a testimonial excerpt from her recipe calendar.

I was reluctant of course, especially after watching him carefully drizzle this perfectly crystal clear substance in a delicate lattice pattern over his pancake. It poured out like a product of modern engineering and chemistry, smooth, clean, and clear, like a sticky liquid plastic. I know it's already in most things I eat and drink, but as a table condiment, I don't know about that. Out of politeness, I tried it, and I must say, I didn't regret it. It is the cleanest, most straightforward sweet I've ever had. I took a bite of my corn syruped pancake, and tasted nothing but starch and sweet, and nothing to distract from that! It is a very pure flavor. Immediately I thought about other applications for this syrup: great in stir-fry, on bacon, fried chicken, ice cream, hot tea, peanut butter sandwiches, fresh fruit, anything! Consider it!