Michael Duke Pavoni

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Talismans, Portals, Offerings.

Mono No Aware is a Japanese concept of Value for the fleeting and impermanent. The 1-week cherry blossom sesason is the most well-known example. Important and Valuable because it lasts so short.

As an American living and making art in Japan, the opposing worlds of Past and Present, West and East, Fact and Fiction blend.

This work takes shape at those intersections of real and imagined, lived and dreamed, recalled and fabricated.

The work exists in the gap between actual events and memory imagined, created, distorted, magnified and buried.


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Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
Sorbonne Université, CCF, Paris, France