Why donate?
Giving to this project, in any amount, is an investment in the realization of something not yet in the world, not yet realized… the LED KIMONO is something the world might benefit from, something that is now in part only an idea, but is slowly, in fits and starts, becoming tangible and something to touch and something real. If I may use the comparison made by a young talented artist, Margo ____, (I’m paraphrasing here) in describing and thinking about the the practice of photography, she said sometimes a project is like the childhood story of the Velveteen Rabbit — it takes a long time on the part of someone devoting time, day after day, imparting affection, attention, devotion — dare we say love — to this abstract “thing” and then, one day, it transforms into something real.
This donation is helping to make that imagined “thing”, that intangible unknowable thing real.
[I am no longer accepting donations for this project. Thank you.]
Sincere thanks and gratitude,
Miya Masaoka