Word: okada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockville, Md. They entertain visiting firemen and corpsmen with vigorous hours of softball, touch football and swimming. Shriver is a good tennis player, easily beats Bobby, who is the Kennedy clan's best. He is also an art connoisseur, has a diversified personal collection including Salvador Dali, Kenzo Okada...
When he and his wife Kimi are not in their Greenwich Village apartment, they are apt to be in their old frame house in rural Rensselaerville, 28 miles from Albany. "It is just like Japan," says Okada. "The moors, the quiet, unhurried countryside. We even have a waterfall in front...
Kimi was once a dress designer, but when she ventures to make suggestions about her husband's designs, Okada becomes jokingly stern. "When Kimi tries to help, she helps too much," says he, making his thumb and forefingers snap open and shut to suggest a yacketing mouth...
...Okada works on as many as five canvases at a time, wandering from one to another in bare feet. He uses knives, fingers, pieces of wood, rollers, "and, of course, I also have brushes." When he has "a feeling of one of my dreams," he begins to paint. He has no advance knowledge of how his canvas should come out, and thus his composition can grow naturally. "Without knowing is the best way to create something," he says...
...Often an Okada painting will suggest a bit of landscape or sky, but sometimes, as in Memories, the images simply float across the canvas like some sort of exquisite flotsam. In the last five years, Okada's palette has grown increasingly muted, and his colors have a weathered look as if time had washed over them again and again, giving them that frail grace that comes only with great age. Nothing is consciously organized; it is Okada's achievement that, in the end, everything still seems in place. This is the chaotic logic of a remotely remembered dream...