STATEMENT

Our ancient ancestors perceived the multitemporal expanse of the starry sky as a flat plane populated by dots, which they joined with lines to create constellations. In my eyes, these celestial inscriptions, which exist above our heads for all of humanity to equally behold, epitomize the purest and most primal mode of creative expression.

 Calligraphy is not just a traditional cultural art form; it is a mode of expression rooted in the primal creative act of mark-making, or kaku (Japanese: “writing”, “drawing”, and “scratching”). I also consider music and dance to be modes of mark-making. I am interested in creating works that are cohabited by marks embodying various times and spaces of the past, present, and future, giving expression to that same pure, primal creative impulse that birthed the constellations.

 I feel that now, in the 2020s, we have entered an age in which such primal marks can also be found in the virtual realm. I believe that if we are to again find an art within the everyday of our present time, we must be attentive to all kinds of marks being made around us.