Description

“I construct clay figure sculptures and then draw on the surfaces. The sculptures become the canvases for my drawings. I consider them as my three-dimensional drawings.

I understand that the nature of drawing is creating illusion, on the other hand the object/sculpture exists in real space.

I take digital images of my sculpture that changes the object into the illusion of the image. In other words, the image of the sculpture becomes a drawing on a paper. The digital images of my sculptures become the center image for the next process/printmaking. I am excited that each layer of the processes contributes a different reality into the artwork.

The original ceramic work that was used as the base images of the prints is titled LOVE. The sculpture was installed at the Harbourview Medical Center in Seattle.

The sky bridge separates the shallow niche by the hallway in the new building and the flat wall across from the elevators in the old building. The shallow niche is a stage or a framed space where the clay sculptures art installed. The four figures spell L, O, V, and E, something obvious for everybody, though they have a quiet existence, blending with the interior of the building that is warm and calm.”

– Akio Takamori –

The faces were inkjet printed from a digital photo detail of the artist’s ceramic sculpture titled Love. The artist used tusche wash to paint directly on one stone and two mylars to make the additional litho elements, which were printed by hand on a direct pressure flatbed press. The prints are signed and numbered in pencil by the artist and the TLLW chop is in the lower left corner margin. The stone and plates were canceled 10/5/08.