Trails and Vistas Art Hikes – Borrowed Landscape or Shakkei (借景)

Trails & Vistas’ Art Hikes are a fusion of art experiences and forest immersion. Led by an experienced guide, Art Hike attendees hike in small groups, pausing at seven to nine art performance installations.

This year’s theme is “borrowed landscape,” or shakkei (借景). In Japan, shakkei (借景) is the art of incorporating distant scenery, like mountains, trees or lakes to make an intimate space feel larger and more integrated with its surroundings.

Trails & Vistas is thrilled to welcome back Capacitor Dance Company from San Francisco. Capacitor’s award-winning work has been praised by The New York Times as “ingenious.” Capacitor’s Artistic Director, Jodi Lomask, is choreographing a solo dance titled ‘The Perfect Flower’ as well as a duet, ‘Tangled Green’’ for the Art Hikes.

The Art Hikes will include harpist, Motoshi Kosako 古佐古基史. Motosi is a Japanese born concert harpist, composer and improviser. Harp Column compared his introspective soloing to Keith Jarrett. In addition to producing seventeen albums, Motoshi regularly tours internationally. Reno Taiko Tsurunokai, a Japanese drumming group based in Reno will perform on Saturday. Reiko Shimbo, founder of Reno Taiko Tsurunokai, says that the reason people instantly connect to Taiko drums is because, “[y]ou don’t just hear it in the ears, but feel it in the body.”

Additional artists include dancer, Jill Salak; sculptor, Aiya Jordan Kawasaki; fiber artist, Lorna Denton; Truckee (High School) designer, Keira Ching; drumming and dancing group, Matachines Guerreros de Reno; Joffrey Ballet trained, local dancer, Leigh Collins; and equestrian performer, Kansas Carradine, aka Circus Cowgirl, along with four site-specific installations of my artwork. This year’s incredible artist line up is partially made possible by a generous grant from the Martis Camp Foundation.