SHO is an art of the line. What is the line? It is a mark that a brush and paper have touched. However, what can you see there? Not only do you see beauty of form drawn on paper, but also motion before a brush touches paper, the speed and pressure of a brush touching paper, and movement and distance after a brush has been apart from paper. All of this makes up one line. We can relive the time that the artist spent and can feel even the artist's emotion by chasing the line. The line is like a time travel machine. We can touch the artist's breathing directly from his or her works exceeding the age. Even if we don't see the artist produce the work, we can still experience its production.

Return your eyes on the entire work again. Black lines and white space are seen there. This blank is the most important thing in a Japanese sense of beauty. This blank is intentional. Japanese feel the sound of the lines and project their own feelings here. Now the work is completed at last.

However, I am trying to be free from the restriction of "meanings of characters" by giving priority more in another beauty of SHO, lines, and to convey my feelings straightly by SHO. I believe that this expression of the line, the throb of life, is a primitive means that everyone can sympathize without the language barrier.

This work expresses 2 aspects of a SHO work.
Left side : Glass shapes invisible lines between strokes consisting a letter.They are orbits of an artist's brush.
Right side : This is an image of power going through the paper when an artist draws line.
The power means the artist's emotion.

This is a collaboration with a glass artist. I did not only design, but also did the glass work at glass studio TooS.