Artist's Statement
I have been working with biomorphic images in both
painting and print over the course of the last several years.
To me biomorphic images seem to manifest the
fundamental essence of living things, evoking the constant movement of organisms
within themselves.
The surface of the printed images has always
attracted me.
I feel that there is a sort of tension on the
surface of a print. The result of the printing process is that only what is
necessary is retained on the paper, nothing more, and nothing less. It is
different from what is painted even when the same color is used. Colors in
prints do not just sit on the paper; rather they go deep into the paper. I
like the unified surface and physical appearance that the printmaking process
can convey.
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Untitled, Takuji Hamanaka, 2003
Photograph by Mike Mosall
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