{"id":43441,"date":"2000-09-03T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2000-09-03T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=43441"},"modified":"2021-01-02T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T23:29:09","slug":"etsuko-kato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/etsuko-kato\/","title":{"rendered":"Etsuko Kato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Japanese.\u00a0 I got a fresh reminder of it, \u201cI am Japanese\u201d.\u00a0 Who is Etsuko Kato.\u00a0 Lived in Japan, I never care and think about it, but it was important thing next to my name in the United States. After over 10 years living in the United States, people in Japan told me that I am not Japanese anymore, and people in the United States told me I am Japanese.\u00a0 I am asking myself, who am I?<\/p>\n<p>Photographs captures this physical world and also captures world which \u201cI\u201d am living in. By taking photographs I confirm the fact that I am alive.\u00a0 Using camera as my third eye, lens as my filter, though those tools show and teach me so many things.\u00a0 The moment camera captures, what I thought,<\/p>\n<p>what and how I felt and what my criterions are.\u00a0 Those aggregations give me some hints little by little for my question \u201cWho am I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking photograph for me, it is conversation with myself.\u00a0 Sometimes I try to have some conversation with others using paper as medium.\u00a0 As a Japanese person, as Etsuko Kato, and as a human. Many questions arising out of those conversations, \u201cWhat is Japanese\u201d, \u201cJapanese and I\u201d and \u201cWho am I\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/etskato.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/etskato.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/03\/kesennuma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-53574\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/03\/kesennuma-350x445.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/03\/kesennuma-350x445.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/03\/kesennuma.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Japanese.\u00a0 I got a fresh reminder of it, \u201cI am Japanese\u201d.\u00a0 Who is Etsuko Kato.\u00a0 Lived in Japan, I never care and think about it, but it was important thing next to my name in the United States. After over 10 years living in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1645,"featured_media":53574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-utah-artists-k"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/03\/kesennuma.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-14 14:15:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53575,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43441\/revisions\/53575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}