Shoko Zama

New painting next to the older painting on the wall of Slivilai Thai Restaurant in West Seattle. ( Slivilaithai.com) I hope the yellow color will improve the appetite 🤤

Just finished this painting “ In the Garden” (36x36)which will go up on the wall of Slivilai Thai restaurant (www. Slivilaithai.com)in West Seattle.
After a year of break,I am painting and drawing again, happily.

I’ll be dancing in this gorgeous multimedia piece “ Hidden Rooms” by Rob Angus again on March 7th 8pm@ Taoist Studies Institute.

Happy New Year 2020! Knitting a blanket for my 4th grandchild Louis👶🏻. Not exactly a baby color, but tasteful.

Photos from Seattle International Butoh Festival 2019. I danced for Hellen Thorsen’s “ Portal “ with 4 other women. Photographer: Roxanne Automata Nihiline. @ Taoist Studies Institute, Seattle

Danced in Helen Thorsen’s “Portal” for Seattle International Butoh Festival 2019.
I was a crow, shattered champagne fluke, ghost, two faced goddess, wolf, deer, owl, Buffalo, then born again as a woman in vast flower field out of the Portal...Fantastic journey with 4 other women. Photo by Kaoru Okumura

Meanwhile in Seattle, International District @ Bonfire Gallery My show “Magic Box” will coming down soon. To have a show in this very gallery was one of my Dream come true.....This is shot by my photographer friend Kaoru Share, who always catches me in best moment. She took my first Butoh performance photo used for the press for this show.

Bill Ga***rd, owner of Bonfire Gallery and his wife with my son Akiva in Tokyo @ his art show. International connections! Bill funded our performance “ Ménage a Trois in Dream Time “at Panama Cafe, and that’s where they met.

Memorable photos from the performance at cafe, titled “ Ménage a Trois in Dream Time “during Hai Japantown Festival back in August 17th. My son Akiva and grandson Eliya was able to see it! Photo by Aimee my daughter in law. I was a flapper girl from the 20’s with lots of make up! With excellent dancers, Aoi Lee & Alan Sutherland. Music by . @ Panama Hotel (Seattle)

You’re seeing this post again, because I deleted it by mistake😭with such a kind comments from .sabi.lens and . So I’m uploading it again. These photos are from July31st Bonfire Gallery opening of my show “Magic Box”, as me and Joan Laage exiting after the show window Butoh performance. She was wearing a kimono with my calligraphy and gold leaf, I was covered with cray( which made my skin looked just like the wall of the building) wearing hand knitted costume( all the material yarn came from goodwill store 10years ago).All of it happened in the historic Panama Hotel circa 1914 by a Japanese architect. After reading the national best seller”Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” I felt so grateful and honored to be able to contribute something to the hotel. It’s owner Jan Johnston (she is Palmyra Pettison in the book) watched the whole performance and in tears told me, how she wanted something like this to be happening in her building. I’m intending to do more at the Hotel in the future, possibly using the bathhouse( Sento) in the basement! Photos: Ted Youngs

We got a ⭐️! Show will be open until September 29th. gallery