The Dog Show: Time Traveler Umeyama’s Drawings from the 21st Century, Hiromi Stringer

San Antonio-based artist Hiromi Stringer shares new “reports” from Shoei Umeyama in her ongoing body of work, Umeyama Time Teleportation Museum (UTTM). The body of works UTTM is a series of installations of an imaginary museum. The main content of the installations include the Umeyama Reports (ink drawings), Umeyama’s collected items (sculptures), museum labels (graphite drawings) as well as various museum ephemera, for example, pamphlets, quality reproductions and stickers as souvenirs. The mission of the Umeyama Time Teleportation Museum (UTTM) is to represent the achievements and legacy of the historical time-teleportation traveler Shoei Umeyama. Umeyama, who was originally from the Japan of the mid-1800’s, created ink paintings/reports as his record of what he saw in this modern-day world of the US. He analyzed things utilizing his knowledge (he was a scholar in the Tokugawa shogunate), and made the paintings as his way of making sense of this world.