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In Japan, art serves many purposes—to express vision, reflect culture, understand the natural world. It is not, at least traditionally, a vehicle for exuberant emotion and self-realization.
Which explains, in part, how Traverse City artist Alexa Grambush found herself sitting in an exhibition space in the little town of Saikai, Japan, two years ago on the opening night of her show. Not mingling over flutes of champagne but laying bare her feelings and her process to a room full of Japanese art lovers who were equal parts perplexed and totally, completely transfixed.
