COMBINE runs BAMI Gallery
The name BAMI is made up of the Japanese characters Ba = 場 and Mi = 見 that translate as site and sight . When written together the word these characters make suggests ideas of viewing space, showing space or discovering space .Ba is a character used in terms that translate as place ,scene , circumstance and marketplace . It does not, then, denote merely physical space. It also expresses a sense of temporal and spatial sharing of ideas and experiences in human existence. we consider it to be a site where research into, and actual experience of the birth of new creative expression, can take place.