{"id":704,"date":"2010-12-20T21:46:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2010-12-28T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T05:06:16","slug":"floating-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/floating-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/images\/2010\/12\/Fabricating_in_Japan_Studio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/images\/2010\/12\/Fabricating_in_Japan_Studio_670.jpg\" alt=\"Fabricating a stuffed animal boat in Kjell Hahn&#039;s studio in Onishi, Japan.\" title=\"Onishi Stuido\" width=\"670\" height=\"378\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been two and a half years since I visited Japan and just as long since I spent time with my old friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kjellhahn.com\/\">Kjell Hahn<\/a>.  He has a new studio set up in Onishi, a little town that is now part of Fujioka in Gunma-ken.  The studio is an old two story building that has a wood-shop and ceramics area on the first floor and a painting area along with a clean room on the second floor.  Kjell let me use the studio to work on a project for a group show this January at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sunywcc.edu:8080\/arts\/?p=1640\">Westchester Community College<\/a>, Wish You Were Here, curated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.severalprojects.com\/\">Joe Winter<\/a> who I met as Sculpture Space this summer. <\/p>\n<p>Since I do not see Kjell often, I made a piece with him reflecting on the title of the show while referencing our previous collaborations.  We found a pile of stuffed animals at a local flea market and selected those that would be true river warriors.  With old wood from his house I began to construct a boat that would carry the furry friends safely down the river.  Then we secured some foam to the inside of the boat and tied the characters to the ship with a sheep in the lead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/images\/2010\/12\/Floating_Friends_Studio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/images\/2010\/12\/Floating_Friends_Studio_670.jpg\" alt=\"Stuffed animals bought at a Japanese flea market atteched to a wooden boat\" title=\"Floating Friends\" width=\"670\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This ship will be sent down the river and we will attempt to retrieve it after it has gone through a bit of rough water and before it goes past the point of no return down river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been two and a half years since I visited Japan and just as long since I spent time with my old friend Kjell Hahn. He has a new studio set up in Onishi, a little town that is now part of Fujioka in Gunma-ken. The studio is an old two story building that<a href=\"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/floating-friends\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimmykuehnle.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}