Naoshima Art Island located in the Seto Inland Sea is the home an impressive contemporary art collection that every art lover should visit once in his/her lifetime.

This small island used to be a calm fishing community until 1985 where Benesse Art Site and Chikatsugu Miyake(then mayor of Naoshima) came to a mutual agreement to develop Naoshima into a huge art space. Naoshima Art Island is divided into 4+1 art spaces: Chichu Art Museum Chichu Art Museum was developed in 2004 as a way to reveal a different approach in the relationship between nature and people. The building was designed by architect Tadao Ando and hosts artworks by Claude Monet, James Turrell, and Walter De Maria which are presented permanently. [information]The majority of the building is located…

Christopher Boffoli a Seattle-based photographer, writer, artist and filmmaker.

His Big Appetites Project was born from his media exposure as a child where he saw tine people living in a normal-sized world. This kind of cultural theme is connected with Jonathan Swift's Gilliver's Travels in the 18th century and now Boffoli developed his own artwork using macro lenses combining

food and toys making it instantly accessible to almost everyone. The eating subject refers to the stronger primal instinct of ours while the toy figures are connected to his childhood playtime was he used to be an avid collector of Matchbox cars, a model railroader and a builder of models…