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Travels in a Paper Coat is a multi-media exhibition inspired by Matsuo Bashō’s famous travelogue The Narrow Road to The Deep North. Combining film shot directly on location in the ‘wild north’ of Japan by Nikolai Azariah, with paintings, sculpture and installation by artist Isao Miura, also poetry by Chris Beckett – visitors will be taken on an interpretive journey from Bashō’s 17th century text into contemporary visual images.
Basho wrote that he set off on his long risky journey to the wild north of Japan, "with just my body and a paper coat...". This exhibition, the third in a series put on by Miura and Beckett, uses film shot in Japan by Nik Azariah projected onto a "temple" installation of Japanese wood and paper, also Miura's oil paintings and bronzes, a "Haiku Creek", and a Paper Coat died the colour of persimmon juice.