Miya Ando

Episode 2 | The Observer State | Miya Ando | In this episode we gain a deeper understanding of what it means to enter the observer state, with the help of New York based multidisciplinary artist Miya Ando. Miya lived her formative years between a Buddhist temple in Japan and the mountains of Northern California. The unique vantage point expressed in her work reflects her experiences as an artist occupying the margins between Japanese and Western culture. Miya's latest exhibition, Kumoji (Cloud Path / A Road Traversed By Birds And The Moon), opened at Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd. in autumn of 2022. The exhibition articulates the ephemeral quality of transient natural phenomena such as night clouds, rain, and the phases of the moon. Miya also recently completed a dictionary containing 2000 "lacunae," succinct Japanese phrases that have no ...