Work samples

  • Tomorrow
    Tomorrow
    "My name is Balzac. I seem to be a small cat, but in reality I’m big. I love traveling! I can see, hear and feel very many things with my own eyes, ears and body -my world’s expanding without limit. Routine mornings come on the sea, but it’s not same. New morning comes to my place every morning, and it comes to your place too. Is the world changing? No, that’s me. I’m changing. It’s going on even if we don’t like. I do make the coming world and myself of the next moment now. What can I meet tomorrow?"
  • Happiness
    Happiness
    "I say happiness it’s like a feeling when I gazing flowers. Perhaps life is lovely. a little one, a large one…I’d like to find lots of flowers. Flowers are blooming beside you."
  • I'm talking
    I'm talking
    "I’m talking to whoever you are."
  • The Cosmic Corrider
    The Cosmic Corrider
    “Hi, wait. Where are you going?” “I’m excited.” “What is waiting for us?” “I don’t know.”

About Hanako

  
Artist Hanako Oda graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, in Tokyo- Japan, in 2002, and has since had an extensive carrer in the arts, ranging from ceramics to theather production to her true love illustration.

My work represents a modest gift from my heart to yours. I forcus on simple delights and subtle joys emerging out of complexity and detail.

Photo

I just LOVE my manual camera and traveling.
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Ceramic

Space Art Installation entitled: Existential Corridor
Burned in firewood
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Custom-made Picturebook

These images are from a 36-Page Picturebook I made for a family about their home and new infant child. This was a collaboration with local author, Margaret Meacham.
  • missing him a heap
    missing him a heap
  • something sounded from out
    something sounded from out
  • No,no
    No,no
  • It was only a game
    It was only a game
  • big yawn
    big yawn
  • half sleeping chickens
    half sleeping chickens
  • They're so shilly
    They're so shilly
  • muttering..
    muttering..
  • Moonshine
    Moonshine
    Archival Pigment Photographic Print.
  • Now we're in deep
    Now we're in deep

Card Game

This is a vocabulary building card game I designed.
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Zodiac

New Year's Cards
  • Mochi
    Mochi
  • Over the Moon
    Over the Moon
  • Beauty
    Beauty
  • New Year's Day
    New Year's Day
  • Dolls
    Dolls
  • See horse- Child of Dragon
    See horse- Child of Dragon
  • Street
    Street
  • Flowers and a Boar
    Flowers and a Boar
  • Jenna Rossman and Cricket Arrison
    Jenna Rossman and Cricket Arrison
    Jenna Rossman performs Love in The World is Round. Cricket Arrison is Rose. For both Love and the Lion, I used the effect of negative space and the audience's brain to fill in the body of the dog that wasn't built. This allows for more possibilities of transformation and highlights the surreal nature of the whole play.
  • Flower Garden
    Flower Garden

Stories of Winter

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  • Scarf
    Scarf
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  • Dreaming
    Dreaming
  • Paty!!
    Paty!!
  • Scandinavia
    Scandinavia
    "Happy Holiday!"
  • Moment
    Moment
    "A certain moment in a life"
  • What you own
    What you own
  • Snowing
    Snowing
    "Snow is falling steadily and soundlessly. The world is changing little by little in silence. Pure white snow comes falling down into my heart."
  • Bakery
    Bakery
    "Que sera, sera"

Stories of Spring

  • Lost Moon
    Lost Moon
    "Whoever dropped the moon? She was left behind on the corridor."
  • The City
    The City
    “Wow, amazing!” “Look down, scary.”
  • The Cosmic Corrider
    The Cosmic Corrider
    “Hi, wait. Where are you going?” “I’m excited.” “What is waiting for us?” “I don’t know.”
  • Curiosity
    Curiosity
    “What is there on the way ahead?”
  • Angel
    Angel
    "A gift of flowers for you"
  • The Secret Path
    The Secret Path
    "To you who have wondered into this secret path. I'll usher you to my favorite toy shop!"
  • Rendezvous
    Rendezvous
    "I had a kind of feeling that I heard the noise by a bus."
  • Ms. Matilda
    Ms. Matilda
    "Do you know this fantastic feeling with a refreshing breeze?"
  • An Unxpected Guest
    An Unxpected Guest
    "An unexpected guest turned up because of merry sounds from the musical box."
  • Happiness
    Happiness
    "I say happiness it’s like a feeling when I gazing flowers. Perhaps life is lovely. a little one, a large one…I’d like to find lots of flowers. Flowers are blooming beside you."

Goods

  • Distant Memory
    Distant Memory
    You can see an animation "Distant Memory" http://akihanacompany.com/Memory.htm
  • Bookmarks
    Bookmarks
  • Tshirt
    Tshirt
  • Tshirt
    Tshirt
  • Tshirt
    Tshirt
  • Tshirt
    Tshirt
  • My friends from Antarctica
    My friends from Antarctica
    "slumbering"
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    My friends from Antarctica
    "Though they’re living on ice, it seems the chill makes their heads screechy."
  • My friends from Antarctica
    My friends from Antarctica
    "I made them shaved ice with colorful syrup on the top then they formed into a line with good breeding."
  • My friends from Antarctica(Letter Paper)
    My friends from Antarctica(Letter Paper)
    "Penguins came over to my home when I was watching the story of Antarctica on TV."

Stories of Summer

  • Twinkle Memory
    Twinkle Memory
    "I like a festival, yet I don’t like it. A festive night is like an illusion, and it makes me feel sad vaguely. I feel as if it’s become a twinkle memory already."
  • Summer Afternoon
    Summer Afternoon
    "Taking a nap on early summer afternoon, How happy I am!"
  • My Secret Place
    My Secret Place
    "A drink having this secluded place with the sound of waves as BGM tastes nice. Won’t you come along some day?"
  • The Milky Way
    The Milky Way
    "Why am I here, I wonder? I feel as if I’m melting into expanses of the sky and beauty of the sparkling stars and fading away. Beyond question, I’m here."
  • Sparkly Stuff
    Sparkly Stuff
    "Sparkly stuff is falling on me, and embraces me."
  • Japanese Chinese-noodles
    Japanese Chinese-noodles
    "“I want to eat Chinese noodles!” It flashed into my mind. I can’t hear the scream of cicadas and the sound of a wind bell anymore. I slurp in a trance."
  • Summer Holidays
    Summer Holidays
    "Grandma! I’ll come back. Good-bye. Good-bye."
  • Tomorrow
    Tomorrow
    "My name is Balzac. I seem to be a small cat, but in reality I’m big. I love traveling! I can see, hear and feel very many things with my own eyes, ears and body -my world’s expanding without limit. Routine mornings come on the sea, but it’s not same. New morning comes to my place every morning, and it comes to your place too. Is the world changing? No, that’s me. I’m changing. It’s going on even if we don’t like. I do make the coming world and myself of the next moment now. What can I meet tomorrow?"
  • I'm talking
    I'm talking
    "I’m talking to whoever you are."
  • I’ll go up a slope again
    I’ll go up a slope again
    "I run down flying in the infinite blue sky. It takes a flash to get the foot I felt it was far. This is my favorite moment! I’ll go up a slope again."