{"id":380,"date":"2013-07-10T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/?page_id=380"},"modified":"2013-07-11T08:53:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:53:57","slug":"neighbors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/neighbors.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-321\" alt=\"Neighbors\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/neighbors.gif\" width=\"611\" height=\"905\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Neighbors, <\/strong>Micah Schwaberow, woodblock illustration-relief letterpress, 1990<\/p>\n<p>Small works with intricate detail are one of Micah Schwaberow\u2019s specialties. By working in a carefully confined area, he distills his message to a commonplace yet personal moment. Schwaberow calls attention to the fleeting magical events that surround us all in daily life. This reverence toward what is too often unnoticed in everyday living manages to capture the diverse array of emotions enumerated by the human spirit.<\/p>\n<p>In this work, the juxtaposition of Stafford\u2019s poem of words and Schwaberow\u2019s visual poem represents the title of the work. The poem and the print are neighbors that live in community with each other, sharing a conversation on companionship and simple living. The shapes in the print at first glance appear to be two mountains and a cloud. The shape of the apparent cloud also reveals the outline of a third snow-capped peak, as Stafford\u2019s poetry suggests. Stafford writes that his mountain is unlike those that have rivers, forests, and glaciers\u2013Schwaberow\u2019s print seems accordingly bereft of these decorations. The unprinted detail on the mountain\u2019s face alludes to a switch backed trail, inviting the viewer into the community of the twin peaks\u2013and beyond to the clouds, snow, or even the summit of one\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Schwaberow is one of the most important American students of Toshi Yoshida. He studied at Yoshida\u2019s studio in Tokyo during the early 1980s under both Toshi and his son Tsukasa. At first he spoke no Japanese, but his patience and persistence in learning the tradition of Japanese printmaking is visible in his works. He later taught at the Miasa Bunka, a cultural school in the mountains of Japan where Yoshida took his best students to instruct others. Schwaberow currently lives in Santa Rosa, California where he uses the geography of Sonoma County as inspiration for works that blur the lines between woodblock printing and watercolor painting.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Todd Frederick and Mang Vang<\/em><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Related Essays<\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Todd Frederick\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/neighbors\/todd-frederick\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Todd Frederick<\/span><\/a> \/ \/ <a title=\"Mang Vang\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/neighbors\/mang-vang\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Mang Vang<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;color: #ff4500\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/cwis_policies\/personal_disclaimer.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\"><em>Disclaimer<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neighbors, Micah Schwaberow, woodblock illustration-relief letterpress, 1990 Small works with intricate detail are one of Micah Schwaberow\u2019s specialties. By working in a carefully confined area, he distills his message to a commonplace yet personal moment. Schwaberow calls attention to the fleeting magical events that surround us all in daily life. This reverence toward what is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/neighbors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neighbors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full_width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions\/398"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}