Donald Richie called the shrine at Ise a perpetual motion machine. He contended it would out last the pyramids. As the pyramids crumple, Ise remains the same. They rebuild it every 20 years, each generation the same as the last. The master carpenters that build it teach the next generation. It has been going on for 2000 years.
I have this one life. Every year I make frames. This year it felt like I was Ise. I do frame building every summer to teach myself how to do it again next year.
Ise has done it 100 times, me just 32.
This year I am building for my October exhibition, Living In Japan, New Paintings
