Yoshihiro Suda

Yoshihiro SUDA (nmp net gallery)
www.dnp.co.jp/ museum/ nmp/ nmp_b/ gallery/ shokudo/ suda_e.html

"a plant can only live by adapting itself to the environment when its seed is first planted in the ground somewhere. If the seed is dropped in myself, then it must acclimatize to the environment which is me. It just so happened that I was a person who sculpted wood. Therefore, within myself, the plant forms itself into a state that is sculpted wood"

Yoshihiro Suda and Takehito Koganezawa: Ma, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
www.recirca.com/ reviews/ yoshihiro/ index.shtml

I discovered a sticker on the wall saying "morning glory, painted wood." I was momentarily puzzled by this because the space around the sticker appeared to be empty. In my search to locate the work, I looked up and saw an exquisitely carved flower curving out of the wall above my head. From then on, I spent the rest of the show having quiet discoveries in the gallery ...

Tenth Anniversary: Carl Sagan Memorial

http://nicksagan.blogs.com/ nick_sagan_online/ 2006/ 12/ dad.html

Though he worried about the state of the world from time to time, it never stopped him. And when we'd talk about what things might be like in twenty-five, fifty or a hundred years, he said he knew there would be difficult challenges ahead, but he believed we were up to the task. He believed in human ingenuity and compassion, in thinking long-term instead of short, in putting our many differences and superstitions aside. He believed in a better tomorrow. He believed in us.

www.donaldedavis.com/ PARTS/ SAGAN.html

Carl Sagan died on December 20th, 1996 at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, with wife Ann Druyan and other family members at his side.
To many of the space artists Carl Sagan was known as among the greatest patrons of our art.
He crossed the substantial gulf between scientist and public educator. His career spanned the transformation of the solar System from tiny telescopic objects to places seen and understood from human and mechanical experience. Unveiling this reality of our cosmic situation was part of his life, and spreading the appreciation of these truths and their implications was another aspect of his life.

Giant Blog-o-thon Memorial Meta-Post by Joel Schlosberg
Links to many places that have posted something about Carl Sagan on this anniversary.
joelschlosberg.blogspot.com/ 2006/ 12/ carl-sagan-blog-thon-meta-post.html