Wagasa by Jose Manuel Renteria Cobos
A Wagasa, is a traditional Japanese umbrellas. It is made of bamboo and Washi, a Japanese paper. It is delicately collapsible inward with its elaborate open-close movement. The Wagasa I captured here is just one kind of the hundreds of verities…
The Weight of Silence
I spent this morning trying to fix a wobbly chair in the kitchen. I kept tightening the screws, but the floor in my apartment is just uneven enough that it never quite settled. I ended up sitting on the floor instead, just leaning my back against…
The Weight of Small Hands
We are all born with a tether to the earth, a thin, invisible string that pulls us toward the things we do not yet understand. In the early chapters of a life, we practice for the future by mimicking the giants who walk before us. We wear their…