The first night of the annual celebration of Asian culture will wrap up with a twilight
Japanese lantern festival.
Dorman Museum There's a whole host of far eastern inspired activities going on Middlesbrough's Dorman Museum from making a Koi Carp wind sock today, Wednesday August 2, to creating a
Japanese lantern on Friday, August 4.
The sculpture was inspired by a traditional
Japanese lantern: lightweight, but bold when illuminated.
Once translucent acrylic projection screens were wrapped around the facade, backlit from within to give the tower the feel of a
Japanese lantern by way of Star Wars, it had made the transition from a helical whirl of raw steel to its final balletic state.
Included are a
Japanese lantern, Paul Revere's lantern, and a magic lantern.
Earlier this year I transformed a corner one metre wide by two metres long from a dumping ground into a pleasant space by using coloured pebbles as ground cover, adding a large yellow bamboo (Phyllostachys 'Aurea') in an oriental-style pot and a stone
Japanese lantern. Small changes but big on impact, which needn't cost a fortune.
"The gate is a large abstraction of a
Japanese lantern," says Antenora.
After 2 months, the juveniles were transferred to
Japanese lantern nets (1.5 x 0.4 m) for rearing, each lantern containing ten levels.
This will be celebrated in Bacolod City between July and August to coincide with the Obon Matsuri (
Japanese LanternEvoking the image of an illuminated
Japanese lantern, the glass and steel volume is anchored onto an existing two-storey brick terrace.