Hi everyone, I want to introduce you to Jaqui Chin, I met her at the podcast training and we had a really good time. She is a great person and very talented. Music, drawings, digital arts, she is doing everything! please no more written words, Click Here to listen to an interview I made to her about homelessness, arts and life.
Here are some of her paintings as well. Enjoy them!
Billy
following their excellent video post (click on video section on the right to find it) here are some photos from Yoyogi park in Tokyo. The residents of the park live in blue tents, and do art. Click on the photos for larger versions of the images. All photographs are credited to Geoff Read.
Just a quick blog link to Fedel Nelkul - this is the Budapest Street paper. They have an online gallery of artists and poets work which is well worth a look. click here to go to their website.
So - this website is officially launched and here are the photo’s to prove it.
Click here to go to our news section with all the rest of the launch photos
Immersed in an ocean of pain and bitterness,
Alone I stand and wait
Each wave impatiently drowning my nostrils
I lose balance, sway and suffocate.
Flowing through my veins, Sadness, Fear and Despair
become tainted by the taste of the seven seas,
The sorrows drowned in pills and whisky are now drowning me.
Immensity of sentiments taking the mind over,
The lines are blurring, the tears, the screams, are they really mine?
Finally, Loving and Loathing become One
No more pretendending, I’ve fucked the Fine Line!
Like a puppet without strings I get thrown about
I try to cry but cannot catch my breath
Each layer of pain fully flickers on my face
How could one man bear such atrocity?
How could ONE soul perceive my identity?
I thought I’d swim it but didn’t realise
How impossibly distant true happiness lies
Nevermind the rest of them happily ignoring
The Death of a Friend, a Flower, a Country!
I thought I’d get it my way
But the current is too strong,
My pact with the devil is fully exposed,
So come… come, please come,
Come and drown with me.
Don’t just look at me leaving!
Your eyes like a silly puppy,
like that beaten up child,
this glance of powerlessness and abandon,
this glance that says I wish but I can’t.
Is there anybody living in this world?
Desperation to understand, to rationalise, to know,to explain,
Intellectual Conclusion Scientific Evidence
It’s just a big lie! In fact, THE big LIE.
You have no ears.
Your eyes can’t see.
You think you feel but you’re just drifting.
I hate.
Who? Me? … Where am I?
Anchored? Stuck? Waiting and Crying.
I raise my hand for help,
but I get a tap on the head.
“You’ll be alright”
Of course I will.
What else is there to be?
Letting my dreams burn,
hopes and wishes collapsing,
My desires evaporate
My life is walking away.
Away from this world who no longer sees,
This world of misunderstandings and petty feelings
This world I so wanted to be mine has now become static.
Nothing moves.
Just giggles and a beer.
Plasters and Make Up.
Condoms and Vomit.
And slowly I die.
Away from the looks and gossips.
Far from those I once loved and cherished.
Far from those who forgot to Love me.
There is no one there.
Anywhere.
Animation Click for smaller version (900kb) or here for LARGER version (2mb)
Ten Feet Away.
I live in a park in Tokyo. I was asked to send a message to your website. Performance from Tent City Tokyo - this is a big .mov file about 5 megs. click here for video
Misako Ichimura
Thank you for the opportunity to get involved to the festival. We wish the movement of international homeless festival could spread wider across the borders. -
about Koe to Kotoba to Kokoro noHeya (the Room of Voices Words and Hearts=Cocoroom)Non Profit Organization Cocoroom have made efforts to introduce social issues to the public and we have specialized our activities in art. In our headquarters Cocoroom located in Shin-Sekai region, Osaka in western Japan, we have unique guests everyday such as artists, homeless people, handicapped people, people Not in Employment, Education or Training, and people who have difficulty to be socialized. 
Cocoroom has been the place we can talk face by face, and that have created a lot of interesting art projects under the question “How can we become socially recognized?” Each of those movements are small, however, we hope it would give each person a warm embrace of heart to achieve wisdom of life.
