Group Exhibition

It just started at a lunch with my friends from pottery studio.

"Hey, how about doing a joint exhibition?"

"I'm not much doing pottery recently...", I said.

"You can bring your bamboo work"

Seriously?

Several months later, 

we opened an exhibition at a small gallery in Midwest Tokyo.

There are different areas in Tokyo.

Busy city center, hectic downtown, affluent area, east end, endless suburb...

Midwest is relatively affordable residential area,

where people are mild yet open minded.

Me and most of my friends live in this area.

Random weaving flower vases

a fruit basket

a shopping bag,  a square basket, and a dish basket...

a  tiny dish

and a spice pot with a miniature bamboo spoon.

There is a sort of relaxed sense of community in this area.

Friends and neighbors dropped by, attracting passers by. 

You cannot make fortune from making baskets.

Nor from pottery.

"But it was such a good fun"

"Yeah"

"Let's do this again someday"

Someone muttered.

We closed the door and returned the key to the gallery owner.

And we went home with the good feeling.