| Kaori Homma Page 1 | Biography | |||||||||
| |||||||||
detail of "Study of East" Drawing by fire | I am interested in the idea of the lines in between, especially the demarcations between the notion of east and west which often perceived as a polemical position. As a Japanese artist living and working in the �west�, the idea of tracing the deciduousness of this demarcation is not only theoretical but personal. |
| |||||||
| The comparative studies I am carrying out between old master�s skylines both from the eastern and the western traditions neither proves nor disproves the existence of this perceived demarcation, but rather questions about our pre-conception about our positioning within the spectrum between east and west. And I am doing this study through unconventional means, by fire, rather than normal drawing method. As I feel such a fleeting idea deserves vocabulary as ephemeral and yet as fundamental. I think there is something important the way image gets burned into the paper and becomes a part of the substance, rather than sitting on the surface like any other materials. And the fact the image contains a level of fragility and notion of death within it, I think is a fitting tool to dig at this idea. | |||||||||
| The Image seen in my works are not made by the pigment sitting on the surface as of a conventional drawing, but by a technique normally associated with a secret correspondence in a past.Using fire, acid and water, the image was made as the integral part of the paper. |
detail of " Between two continents .." | � Between two continents and a half a millennia- Moran and Fan k�wan� Drawing with fire, acid and water on paper 2009 | |||||||
| |||||||||







