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asylum-art: The soft and melancholic works of Atsuko Goto If you’re a regular Bleaq visitor you probably have a pretty good idea of the aesthetics of the shared work: beautiful art with a touch of melancholy. Often these keywords result in dark colored...

Dreams are considered important, real, and public in some cultures, but absurd, irrational and personal in others. Japan has its own history of dreaming, and the importance of dreams has evolved through Japanese supernatural beliefs and art for centuries...

Atsuko Goto’s “The Silence of Idols” at Thinkspace Gallery. Currently on view at Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City, California is the exceptional solo exhibition by artist Atsuko Goto entitled “The Silence of Idols.” Goto creates beautifully melancholic...

by Ariadna Zierold Tokyo based artist Atsuko Goto builds on her own visions of dreams in her other-worldly mixed media drawings. Goto’s “dream-drawings” took particular prominence in her work after the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, a...

(above) 7 minute video of my tattoo and the blessing Sak Yant – Sacred Tattoo I’ve gone back and forth about how I feel about sak yant, or sacred tattooing in Thailand, for a long time.  On the one hand, I like how they look and my...