Shadow always involves light.

I repeatedly print tens of millions of small dots of inks drew by fine point pen on the same support for NAMIE and D.K.D.S.d. Single layer of inks does not bear shadow. As I layer inks from thirty times to sixty times, shadows quietly involve themselves with the works. You can also call shadows as dark fields generated by time. Of course, intricately layered colors/lights are the protagonists of my works. But backlights from far beyond form shadows of each dot and I see the shadows become part of works. It is an issue for me, because I have been vividly aware of colors but the colors become dull by shadows. However, I realized that shadows are equally important elements in my works, and this realization would probably change my interpretation of my own works.

As the forest lights coming in, lights and shadows have different agencies, yet they simultaneously consist of a single landscape.

2024.5.9.　Kouseki Ono

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