<introduction> Chisai and this last ten years (1)
Hi, my name is Chisai Fujita 藤田 千彩. I am Japanese and live in Kyoto, Japan for ten years. Today March 21th is my birthday, hahaha. It's a great opportunity, so let me introduce myself.
My name is Chisai Fujita 藤田 千彩. my job is writing articles and research about contemporary art.
Many tourists come to Kyoto. They say, “I want to live here!”. It is interesting for me, because I live here unexpectedly. I was satisfied with art world and my life in Tokyo, and I didn't know anything about Kyoto or Asia until I met one artist.
His name is Osamu Kokufu 國府 理.
We lived together for a year and a half. He loves nature and machines, especially automobile. His artworks represented air pollution problems and climate change. I got tired of Tokyo, and after I came to Kyoto, I decided to write the articles about art in all over Asia. What we were doing was different, but the way we thought and acted was similar.
One day, he told me, “Which area do you like?” I replied, “Hong Kong! So exciting!” He said, “I was bicycle designer around 2000. Then I had been Taiwan many times”. When I heard that “I only went to Taipei, Taiwan!”. He smiled to me, “Taipei is not interesting, let’s go to Tainan and South Taiwan together, I will introduce there”. We couldn't actually do that, but for these 10 years, I went to Tainan every time, I felt like I was with him.
Let's write down what I'm doing here, including these memories and records!