Yoshio Ikezaki is an artist and papermaker. He creates his art with two basic materials, Paper and sumi-ink. He creates paper for his own painting in order to control uniform thickness and fiberdistribution taking ink’s reaction to the paper into account and creating a ratio of different fibermaterials.

The images in his sumi-ink paintings are deeply associated with the memories of landscapes he saw during his childhood. He visualizes them as if they were slow-moving photographs. To him, there are no man-made objects, but all natural elements like water, earth, sky, wind, and moon etc. 

As always, I am attracted to the dance between black and white materials. In Ikezaki's works, he showed me that although the the ink's reaction is irregular, it has the ability bring up memories from deep inside you. And that is what I would like to achieve in the future.