American Craft Magazine, June/July 1999
"Za-artu is a master cinematographer, as is made evident by free-flowing slow-motion shots and carefully executed close-ups...Za-artu continues to display...a visual seductiveness that threatens to make fiber fetishists of us all."
American Craft Magazine, September 1996
"I could not help but admire the video's technical excellence... The inventiveness, skill and playfulness of these artists is everywhere evident, as when Tanaka is shown rubbing a piece of cloth on a great slab of rock to extract a kind of engraving, Tomita makes a small drawing and then brings it to life on the loom, or Shindo hangs his banners and lets them wave in the wind...truly magical and live up to even the most exhalted ideas one might have about Japanese culture."
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