Artist Statement

Itsuko

My work has two distinctive features.  The first characteristic is that most of my works are prints.  I use a camera instead of a pencil.  I use acid to bite the plateinstead of painting on canvas by my hand.  This indirect method of printmaking helps me to produce accidental and a multi-surface of qualities, which would be impossible if I were to work on the surface directly.

The second feature is that my motifs are mostly derived from images of nature such as flowers, trees, clouds, and waters.  For a few years I have ben working specifically with floral image.  My eye perceives the flower as it exists in the real world, but my subconsiousness wishes to deal with the invisible reality of life.  The point at which these two meet in my mind becomes the source of my inspiration.

Itsuko

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