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About 20 years ago, after encountering Aboriginal art in Australia, I began wondering what it would look like expressed through sumi ink. The color of ink changes between the moment it is applied to ganshi paper and after it dries. By gradually blending old and new ink, applying it to washi paper, waiting for it to dry, and repeating this process, I create over six subtly different ink tones to find the desired color. Preparing the ink alone can sometimes take nearly five hours. After that, I freely place dots by hand, following my intuition.

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 A single dot placed on ganshi paper has a deep center where the brush actually touches, with a soft gradation of bleeding around it. This is a characteristic unique to ganshi paper and sumi ink, and cannot be achieved with other papers or paints. Although it consists of a collection of dots on a flat surface, it begins to appear three-dimensional. In addition, this work has no fixed orientation. I hope viewers can enjoy it freely from any direction.

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