Designers, illustrators and typographers can all be called artists when they create visually and conceptually exciting image which sends a strong message using nothing but letters, illustration and an intelligent use of colors. What does graphic artist do? It's pretty simple. Every day, artists worldwide are all bringing something new and unique to the table, enriching our collective design conscience with their work. I’d like to continue developing this concept, visit more cities to perform and share these precious moments with you.The field of graphic design has never looked better. At the end of the performance, you can see the trace of this journey on the paper. As a calligrapher, it’s amazing to see and listen to my own “breathing” transformed into pulsation of light and sound, and the rhythm of my “writing” is creating music that resonates in the space. Corey composed the soundscape with the acoustic piano and a modular synthesizer system, which receives signals from the sensors on my brush and my body as the improvisational performance progress. Mika created a costume with embedded sensors that translate my physical movements performing large-scale calligraphy painting into light and sound. A Tokyo-based sound artist, Corey Fuller, and Berlin-based e-textile artist, Mika Satomi and I developed this performance project in France in 2016. 書韻 (sho-inn) means “resonance of calligraphy” in Japanese the project’s concept is to explore artistic communication between the performative calligraphy painting and sound art and to transform it into a multi-sensory experience bridged by e-textile technology. One of my recent passion collaboration projects is titled “書韻 (shoinn)” - it is a conceptual, collaborative and improvised performance, in which Japanese calligraphy, e-textiles, and sound art come together. for college, and I started to explore my artistic expression through Japanese calligraphy. It was an enlightening moment - I thought, “calligraphy could be a form of self-expression!” For the first time, it was beyond mastering the traditional forms - Calligraphy is a poetic visual expression, and it was the combination of everything I love. I picked some words from my notebooks filled with my poetry and prose to write as calligraphy artworks - and it all made sense and felt so natural for me. Master Kobayashi was a very free-spirited calligrapher, who taught us to show our personality through our writing - that was when I began to write my own words as calligraphy art. But until I met Master Masazumi Kobayashi, a calligraphy teacher in high school, calligraphy was only something I was good at and enjoyed practicing. I received honorable awards, and the Title of Master Student Calligrapher when I was 14. That was the first time when I picked up the calligraphy brush, and I practiced under Master Sato through the program organized by International Japanese Calligraphy Association for about 13 years until I graduated from high school. I watched them write very closely, and tried to perfect my brush skills. I was fascinated with my master’s calligraphy - so beautiful, elegant, and perfectly balanced. I started to study Japanese calligraphy (shodo in Japanese) when I was six years old my mother took me to the calligraphy school - Zuiho Shodo School - taught by a couple Master Zuiho Sato and Kato Sato in a small town in Hokkaido.
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