Taro

Taro Yamada was born in Tokio-Japan, but his family was relocated to Lima Perú in early 80s. Taro lived between two worlds: outside western world, but a very traditional Japanese style in-house. He confessed an special fascination for seeing how unnatural Japanese writing can be for the West: unintelligible ideograms, words without spaces written vertically and read from right to left, sometimes with diffuse meaning in western languages. But also understand that originally each ideogram is the representation of an object, and there is no better way to return to the origin than to let the character become a thing, again. This is my definition of a calligram. His western education in Visual Arts in Universidad Abierta de Lima in Peru, and then Usc-Barclay in USA, mixed with his Japanese roots converted him in the middle of something, creating a strong need to transmit and validate what he feel, in others. He looks like a bridge, nobody knows what about. He is part of REBELWORDS.ORG: a union of artists oriented to mix articulated poetry with visual art and non-conventional publications.