French Calligraphy
It is a collaboration of Japanese calligraphy and French letters. In my first solo exhibition, I expressed French letters with Japanese inks, and challenged to express the alphabet in calligraphy style.
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Something can be created when I push me to the edge, review my works, and become innocent.
Calligraphy is called “a beauty of the moment.”
In this beauty, my cultivated time is embedded with my mind and sentiment.
It is a collaboration of Japanese calligraphy and French letters. In my first solo exhibition, I expressed French letters with Japanese inks, and challenged to express the alphabet in calligraphy style.
READ MOREI feel charm in the romance of ancient Chinese characters over 200 years ago.The uniqueness of oracle script have a sense of humor and enjoyment to play.
READ MOREAhead of expanding the possibility of Japanese ink, I wrote abstract calligraphy such as picture.I hope you review the works in your free imagination.
READ MOREAs my core of continuous-study of traditional calligraphy (square style, semi, cursive style, seal-engraving, clerical script, and cursive script), I wrote one-letter Kanji of ideogram to let you review as artworks expressed images of letter shapes.
READ MORE“I am very pleased to have the opportunity to present the works that
I produced inspired by facets of myself that change perpetually,
the accumulation of time and the contemplating of the now.
I would like to expand the expressive potential of calligraphy by exploring various techniques.
I hope that you will enjoy the declension of calligraphic expression.
My wish to calligraphy is that I draw an intentional line inside of contingency,
and discover a contingent line inside of intention.
I am glad if you feel a "my new existence" from the wish expressed in my works.”
Shofu Yoshimoto