Box Universe/Eastern Standard Time

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2008-03-13T17:42:00.000-07:00

Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity!!! And thank you so much for who helped and encouraged me! And thank you so much for who came to my open studio nights! I had a really good experience here.
Since I lost about 2 weeks for sick, I had been in the studio almost all the time to catch up until today.
I made 10 of 24"x48" paintings and 215 drawings for 1000 drawing project. I really wanted to finish the project before this project end but I could not. I realized 5-10 drawings per a day is healthy amount... So far I have made 585 drawings and 415 till finish. I did not realized that there were so many more of violences and naked people in my drawings until I put all drawings on a wall. Different place effected my drawings I think.
I start being able to imagine next things that I want to explore but I want to finish this before start doing something...
It will be done at just right moment I guess.
I actuary have not been to many places yet as I should have, but there are many art fairs are coming up and I will try to go as many of those as possible!
See you in Savannah on April!

Open studio

2008-02-28T13:17:00.000-08:00

Whoever in NYC at the time, please come! I am lonely here. It is so cold... Anyway, I will do my best...

2008-02-22T21:24:00.000-08:00

everything is so horny in ny.

2008-02-18T21:13:00.000-08:00

I had been sick and could not do anything about a week. But now I am better and ready to continue what I was planning to do.

Cannot stop coughing

2008-02-10T18:19:00.001-08:00

I had been sick since beginning of February. The most of symptom of cold has been gone since 2,3 days ago but I cannot stop coughing for 10 days. And none of medicines which I can buy without prescriptions work at all. This is rare thing and I am so frustrated...
I wanted to reach to 573 drawings by the last weekend but I am still in 526 at this point. Yesterday, I was on a bed all day and I could not sleep at night because of coughing. I was so frustrated and wanted this project move forward. i woke up and try to draw something...

I drew this and could not continue and I went back to the bed. I think I like this one....
I might go clinic. I have not been to galleries and museums yet...

Drawing Marathon 488 till 1000

2008-02-07T22:11:00.000-08:00

I had been sick and it does not go away and so frustrating! But weather is getting mild those days and it makes me realized that my emotion easily might effect by weather not the place...
Anyway, I finally reached the turning point today and 488 drawings to goal. It is a good pace so far.

2008-02-05T23:56:00.000-08:00

I had almost ignored about my project called "1000 drawing project."
I want to finish this project before this program ends. I have been doing this since last Winter quarter.
There are still about 530 to go, and I will count down this number on this blog.

semi homeless

2008-02-02T14:50:00.000-08:00

I stayed in my friend's sister's room while she was back in home. I had nightmares every night somehow...

I had been semi-homeless last month about 2 weeks.

This month, I have a place to stay again. My friend's apartment. We started SCAD from ESL(English as Second Language) at same quarter. Now he lives in "luxurious" apartment in Brooklyn. He has left here for vacation for this month. So, I can use his room this month.

I suggest that people, who want to avoid jet coaster life, should change major to computer art.... I am too late but it is ok...

my my metro

2008-01-24T12:25:00.000-08:00

I swiped my metro card and it was expired. Then I realized that it has been 2 weeks since I came here. Someone said it has been warmer than usual winter for NY but it is really cold to me. I am used to the whether of Savannah and miss it. Other than Wall Mart Super centers, Southern army zombies, and Chatham tower, I realize that there are not so many scary things in Savannah and it is good place for living.
NYC makes me think a lot. I hope this thinking will effect positively to my work…

2008-01-12T15:32:00.000-08:00

People in train look soooooooo tired and depressed. There are so many Asians in China town. Dimsam was good.

Getting Ready

2008-01-11T22:14:00.001-08:00

I went my studio and re-arranged the space. Thank you Charles for leaving me a message with many good advises! I will go check the galleries that you suggested me! My 2 of 3 packages have come to the studio but one of them; I don’t know where it is. But it is not too important to start working… I was looking for a place that has free Internet. Even Starbucks did not have free Internet. Later, my friend told me that I could get the free access at Mac store. It was raining today but it is not too cold in NY compare to the past few weeks ago in Savannah. I hope it won’t get too cold. I am living in Brooklyn for now and the place is really close to Atlantic-Pacific station. And it is not hard to go anywhere as long as I have an address. NY had been good to me until this point…. I got involved a fighting with a drunken guy... Fortunately, people around me stopped us and I did not get injure and police did not come in a good way. The guy teased me, got mad at me and lost his eye glasses all by himself... I hope something fun happenings will happen to me later...

recent artist statement

2008-01-04T00:05:00.000-08:00

I find our lives to be full of dramas. I believe these dramas come from the nonsense in our lives. We cannot comprehend nonsense with our customary thoughts. I am interested in lines that divide things that make sense from things that do not.

In pocket size sketchbooks, I draw and reinterpret images that come into my mind, happenings, dreams, and emotions at the time. The simplicity of materials and techniques allow me to have flexible and spontaneous ways to produce images. The drawings do not directly explain the meanings, reasons, and realities of our lives, but I feel an internal necessity to communicate with others through images, which I cannot explain in words. I consider communication through languages and words to be external communication. I consider what I am trying to do with the drawings to be internal communication. Through the drawings, I try to find a fundamental story or subconscious sequence in the images and re-evaluate values and cognition that I have experienced in my life. Then, I search for ways to develop the drawings through other media such as painting, installation, and sculpture.

My goal is having my language through the activity to welcome the nonsense with awe. And I believe this action helps me overcome stereotypes and prejudices against unknowable in our lives.

about the title

2008-01-02T11:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPOWynYoNGU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGVtApaPpWk

Miami Art Basel 07 and a happy new year 08!

2008-01-02T11:33:00.000-08:00

Miami was scary. Lots of galleries and lots of fake boobs from all over the world. I don't really know what to do with this world...

2007-11-24T22:00:00.000-08:00

This is my current direction. I am not expecting huge change in my work. But this is before NYC anyway...

2007-11-23T13:32:00.000-08:00

cats

Hello, My name is Akira Horikawa, a SCAD Painting grad student. I am going to NYC next year for NYC studio space opportunity award(I don't know the real name) for Winter 08.

I try to let people know who are interested in this opportunity and life in NYC through this blog. I hope I can do well.
Now I am just trying to be familier with this.