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Hello friends! Check out this new batch of updated photos of our week-long stay in Matsushima Bay and on the pine-clad islands themselves!

Basho once wrote of Matsushima:

Morning and evening
Someone waits at Matsushima
One-sided love.

I have to say that we fared better. There was not only two-sided love, but what seemed like love from all sides as nature graced us with warm days of unexplicable beauty. The sparkling o...

Today we led a Workshop on Art, Travel, and Meditation and it was a great success! Thank you all who came to meditate, talk, drink tea and paint with us on saturday. If there are any in the Edinburgh Area who want a rerun, please don't hesitate to contact us. As for everyone, please enjoy these photos! 

Thank you all for coming to the fantastic opening of the Edinburgh Students' Art Festival! It was a great launch at the Whitespace Gallery with more than 800 people in attendence, three great performances and 50 artists. We are happy to have taken part. We are grateful also for the photos taken by the great photographer Louise Spence (www.louiseanna.co.uk) who came to record the event. To see more of these photos visit our fac...

This Friday at 6-9 pm our work will be presented in the launch of ESAF the Edinburgh Students Art Festival. We will be exhibiting Leaf Storm and Video Haiku in the Whitespace Gallery which is at:

11 Gayfield Square

Edinburgh

EH1 3NT

So, if you want to see our art, you know where to go!
See you all there!!!

Dear readers,

We have a new sneak peek for you: Leaf Storm! Leaf Storm is an installation/performance that we are preparing for the coming Basho exhibition.

Leaf Storm is a rotating curtain of real dried leaves (they really give the impression of a leaf storm!) inside which Anya sits in silence and serves water to audience members who decide to enter and sit with her. We have already tried out Leaf Storm and we have receiv...

Dear readers,

as you see we are hard at work creating the rewards for our kickstarter supporters and writing our book. This is a picture of Anya working on an ink and colored pigment picture of the Basho statue in Tokyo. Please look forward to more images of our work on this blog. If you are kickstarter supporter of the first and second tier (postcard, or original print by Anya) please know that your rewards are ready to be sen...

Helllooooo! Our Flickr is created and up and we will be updating with a leg of the journey each week. Right now our week's walk from Tokyo to the mountain temples of Nikko are edited and already up! Nikko was our first stop on our walk around Japan. We started walking from Basho's old house on the Sumida river in the center of Tokyo and 40km later we had still not left the Megalopolis behind. Our first days of adjusting the th...

​Hello all ye faithful readers! We have finally returned from our perambulations around Japan and we are ready to get to work! We've set up this blog so you can track our artistic adventures as well as our physical ones and make sure we don't get lazy out here! We will be updating with pictures and comments about our work, as well as snippet of our adventures in Japan from the book to be, every week or so, so please feel free...