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Photo: LF Documentation                                                                                        \n                                        <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ultimate-post-row ultp-block-5c3ee3\"><div class=\"ultp-row-wrapper\"><div class=\"ultp-row-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ultimate-post-column ultp-block-e51a82\"><div class=\"ultp-column-wrapper\">\n<section class=\"mc-basic-paragraph\" >\n\n        <div class=\"mc-basic-paragraph mc-copy-long\">\n            <div class=\"mc-wysiwyg-content\">\n<p>In June 2024, Toronto-based artist\u00a0<strong>Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka<\/strong>\u00a0(b. 1988) undertook an artist residency in the historic Tom Thomson Shack at the McMichael. The resulting project,\u00a0<em>Final Gasp of the Nervous System<\/em>, responds to the natural environment and evokes personal and collective resilience in response to mental health struggles and the looming climate crisis. Using traditional Japanese washi paper and other handmade paper from southeast Asia, Hatanaka\u2019s works combine various printmaking, dyeing, and painting techniques.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#fcf7e8\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ultimate-post-row ultp-block-956294  ultpBgPadding smL smR\"><div class=\"ultp-row-wrapper\"><div class=\"ultp-row-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ultimate-post-column ultp-block-7baada\"><div class=\"ultp-column-wrapper\"><div  class=\"wp-block-ultimate-post-image ultp-block-d49712\"><div class=\"ultp-block-wrapper\"><figure class=\"ultp-image-block-wrapper\"><div class=\"ultp-image-block ultp-image-block-none\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"lazyload ultp-image\"  alt=\"Image Not Found\"  src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271920%27%20height%3D%271282%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201920%201282%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271920%27%20height%3D%271282%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/mcmichael.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC_4348.jpg\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ultp-image-caption\">Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka at work in the Tom Thomson Shack during her residency, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2024. Photo: Roya Del Sol<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ultimate-post-row ultp-block-b4a115\"><div class=\"ultp-row-wrapper\"><div class=\"ultp-row-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ultimate-post-column ultp-block-5a3594\"><div class=\"ultp-column-wrapper\">\n<section class=\"mc-basic-paragraph\" >\n\n        <div class=\"mc-basic-paragraph mc-copy-long\">\n            <div class=\"mc-wysiwyg-content\">\n<p>Displayed on the left is the linocut assemblage\u00a0<em>Faultlines and Loneliness<\/em>\u00a0(2024) a work that contrasts imagery of the landscape with a line that traces the increased use of the word \u201cloneliness\u201d in publications over time. In\u00a0<em>Aftershocks\u00a0<\/em>(2024), displayed at the centre, gyotaku (traditional Japanese fish prints) are sewn together with linoprints of rolling landscapes, ink brush paintings, and traditional paper. On display at right is a lino block print matrix used by Hatanaka in the printmaking process.<\/p>\n<p>The final day to view the work in the Thomson Shack is October 11, 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"mc-curator\"  style=\"background-color:#fcf7e8; \">\n    <div class=\"mc-curator__container site-container site-container--medium\">\n        <div class=\"mc-curator__image\">\n            <div class=\"mc-curator__image--box\">\n                                <img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27872%27%20height%3D%27872%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20872%20872%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27872%27%20height%3D%27872%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/mcmichael.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alexa.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"mc-curator__content\">\n                        <div>\n                <h5 class=\"mc-curator__copy\">About the artist<\/h5>\n                <h2 class=\"mc-curator__name\">Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka<\/h2>\n            <\/div>\n            \n                        <div class=\"mc-curator__text\"><div class=\"mc-wysiwyg-content\">\n<p>Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka is a Japanese-Canadian, queer and disabled artist based in Toronto, an identity that sculpts her practice. Hatanaka draws from her training in print and papermaking techniques, connecting to her intentional use of historical land-based materials and processes. Her adaptations of traditions, in the form of large-scale print installations and wearable sculptures, address contemporary questions of climate change, mental health, and survival. Recurring motifs related to landscape, fish, and bodies of water together speak about personal and collective experiences of struggle and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Hatanaka\u2019s practice is informed by her experience-based research and collaboration, including long term community-engaged projects in the high Arctic, and performances that integrate and reinterpret kamiko, garments sewn out of washi, Japanese paper.<\/p>\n<p>Hatanaka has exhibited her work at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, CA), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, CA), The British Museum (London, UK), Toronto Biennial of Art (Toronto, CA) the Guanlan International Printmaking Base (Shenzhen, China), Nikkei National Museum (Burnaby, CA), Ino Cho Paper Museum (Kochi, Japan), and Harper\u2019s (New York, USA).<\/p>\n<p>IG:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alexahatanaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" 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