Proof of Beauty. In Conversation with Shinji Nakaba

On a chilly and rainy afternoon in November, I visited the studio-cum-house of Shinji Nakaba, the jewellery artist. He and his wife, Noriko, sat together at a kitchen table and we started our conversation. Among the questions I had prepared, the one I really wanted to ask was, what does it mean to be an artist in an uncertain time such as now? Certain kinds of things need to be retold again and again at different times and in different places and I believe that Shinji’s answer to this question is certainly one of them.