Re-Birth

This year, 10 years after the city of Detroit's rebirth from bankruptcy, artists from different backgrounds have collaborated to create a participatory installation artwork on the theme of "rebirth" and it will be exhibited at the Hinamatsuri event at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Visitors will be invited to fold origami at the venue and write their wishes and memories of Detroit on it. These origami will be tied to this installation piece by the person who wrote the message, the visitor.

By sharing with visitors the wishes and memories that someone has written in this installation, we sincerely believe that new connections will be created, or existing connections deepened, between Detroit as a place and the people associated with there. We hope that these connections between people and places, and between people and people will continue to make Detroit a place full of energy for the next decade and beyond.

* Exhibited in "Hinamatsuri: Japanese Girls Day" (Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit) * Collaboration with calligrapher Kyoko Fujii and woodblock print artist Nobuko Yamasaki