{"id":6128,"date":"2012-07-01T17:36:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T22:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/?p=6128"},"modified":"2012-07-01T17:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T22:42:35","slug":"hina-matsuri-conversation-with-jan-smith-in-ragazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smithjan.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/01\/hina-matsuri-conversation-with-jan-smith-in-ragazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hina Matsuri – Conversation with Jan Smith in Ragazine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hina Matsuri – Fukushima, Jan Smith 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ragazine – Conversation with Jan Smith<\/h1>\n

Chuck Hauput of the art magazine,\u00a0Ragazine<\/a>\u00a0 included me in the July-August 2012 issue. \u00a0I was asked to pick one of my favorite images from Cesium Tours<\/em> (Fukushima) and explain the history behind it. \u00a0I picked Hina Matsuri, and talk about what the dolls tell about the abandoned places I explored \u00a0The conversation was published today and \u00a0you can go to their site or read the conversation here.<\/p>\n

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Hina Matsuri<\/h1>\n

Hina Matsuri\u00a0<\/em>is part of a series of images that explores the permanently evacuated zones around the Fukushima nuclear plant, one year after the disaster.\u00a0 These places were inhabited and are spaces to which people have a right to belong. \u00a0It is this massive loss of permanence that I portray through photographs of abandoned personal items.\u00a0 I use triptychs in tribute to the Japanese haiku.<\/p>\n

Every item found tells a story, and the entire zone felt like an archeological site.\u00a0 Scattered clothes and dirty dishes indicated a hurried departure; broken windows spoke of the looting. \u00a0Yet there were things I saw whose meaning escaped me, although I knew they were significant. This triptych is precisely such an example.<\/p>\n

Many homes had dolls laid-out in celebratory displays. Indeed, the week prior to the disaster was \u201cGirls\u2019 Day\u201d or\u00a0Hina Matsuri<\/em>.\u00a0 Families with daughters decorated their home with dolls, often showing them the entire week. \u00a0The dolls in this image are likely Korean, and speak of the family\u2019s trip there at some earlier time. \u00a0The tradition started during the Heian period, when straw dolls were floated downstream to the sea. \u00a0As they drifted they snared troubles and bad spirits, taking them away.<\/p>\n

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Ragazine – Conversation with Jan Smith Chuck Hauput of the art magazine,\u00a0Ragazine\u00a0 included me in the July-August 2012 issue. \u00a0I was asked to pick one of my favorite images from Cesium Tours (Fukushima) and explain the history behind it. \u00a0I picked Hina Matsuri, and talk about what the dolls tell about the abandoned places I … <\/p>\n

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