AJIGAURA MURAL PROJECT
2021/ Hitachinaka / Ibaraki / Japan
Ajigaura Mural Project / 2021 / Hitachinaka / Ibaraki / Japan
October 2021 I have invited by my long time friend Satoru, and Yuma from En one tokyo, and Daisuke from Ajigaura Mural project, and city Of Hitachinaka-shi to Create a Series of Murals on Ajigaura beach Ibaraki, Japan.
Ajigaura located north of Tokyo, takes about 3h on the Pacific sea little town used be called(or they called it) Oriental Naples, with a lot of suffers and people enjoying the beach, before they build a long big wave breaker in late 90’s, witch also saved the town from huge Tsunami in 2000’s.
Thanks to the trust from Enone tokyo, and Daisuke on my Mural making process, Only the request I have received from the city was to create a mural for/of Ajigaura/Hitachinaka-shi.
So first 2 day I dedicated to have a looked at the painting location, I walked around the surroundings, Talking to local people, go to the bar and listening to everyones memories and history about the place.
Day 3 I started to Paint one of the three building to be painted I only had some references to paint, no finished sketch how it will look like.
This process is familiar for me from painting and the streets and Abandon buildings, where I just rock up to location look at the wall, decide what to paint according to the size and shape of the wall, and Iike to use motifs that suits to the location.
So through this project every day I free styled new paintings, inspire by Ajigaura’s its Nature, History, and talking people While painting about their everyday like, what they ate, and there memories of the place.
Here is a list of some motifs that I have painted on the mural
-Hamanasu
-Tonbi
-wild flowers
-33street
-Photos of the pier(water quority check pipe) from 1991 where people used to Surf through.
-rock sea shrimp
-Hanadai
-Ankou
-seagull
-dragon fly
-Tachiuo
-life saving ring
-seaweed
-Hotate
-Tetrapod
-Torazuka Kofun. (ancient Mural from the archeological site)
-Haniwa(The Haniwa are terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period of the history of Japan.)
-Kiha222(old local train number)
-Hirame
-oyster
I’d like send big thank you to the Daisuke from Ajigaura mural project, En one Tokyo crew, and People from City of Hitachinaka who trusted us to go freestyle.
You can see the interview and progress shot here:
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