Work statement or description
I use environmental materials to create abstract works of art celebrating the power and beauty of nature.Currently based in Kagoshima, Japan, and inspired by a local traditional and ancient material practice of mud dying, I create a range of earth-toned colors and organic shapes and patterns. Guided by nature rather than by an internal or self-driven vision, the works explore
human’s connection and relationships with nature, acknowledging nature’s power over human lives through events such as earthquakes. The canvas works are large compositions occupying whole walls featuring raw edges and occasional rips and tears.
Work technical description
This work is made by Japanese traditional dyeing technique called Dorozome which is a type of mud dyeing techniques originated from Southern Japan island Amami Oshima. Traditionally, the technique is used for the production of Oshima Tsumugi, silk kimonos. Plants and soil of Amami Oshima are used in dorozome, and the naturalistic technique has been going on for more than a
thousand years. Dorozome I'm doing now is a unique method of pulling up the canvas after it has been soaked in the mud field for about a month. In the meantime, I have just waited until nature finished it.
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