Origins & Echoes - Coming to the Art•Shop July 11, 2023
The Origin & Echoes collection has been years in the making. Literally. Both the art itself and the idea for this online exhibition.
This exhibition showcases a stunningly diverse collection of intricate cut paper artworks that will captivate art enthusiasts and paper-lovers alike. Each piece is meticulously hand-cut, bringing to life a bold, whimsical and mesmerizing world of paper artistry. Before I get into that, here are some
Essential Details
The Origins & Echoes collection, a deep-dive into a decidedly peculiar paper-art journey, is coming to the Art•Shop July 11, 2023.
A couple important points:
The art ships from America (except for one piece)
This is the first time I'm putting some original art on sale
The artwork runs a wide gamut of price ranges because it also runs a wide gamut of sizes, style, and eras
If I can get all of the entries, details, and images set up in time, I’m hoping to give newsletter subscribers an early preview (like a day or two) to check out the art and lay claim to any pieces they fall in love with. If you’re not subscribed, there’s still time.
Origins & Echoes follows the entire papery journey from art school through my illustration career and across the ocean back to Japan where things really got wild. I wasn’t kidding when I said this dive was going to be deep. We’re talking fathoms.
The Origin of Origins & Echoes
A couple years ago, I was working on putting together an online collection of my more vibrant work, temporarily called Vividity. That grouping included a bunch of pieces that are in this show, and a bunch that aren’t. It didn’t include any of my, um...vintage work, or illustration.
There were complications. The biggest of which was that a lot of the artwork had been shipped to galleries in the United States. For various reasons, instead of shipping those pieces back to Japan, I decided to have them take up residence in my childhood bedroom at my Mom’s house. I figured they’d be comfortable and cared for, and I was right.
And there they sat, waiting for me and my Mom to coordinate well enough to get the show off the ground. Any good chemist will tell you that, to really get things grooving, you need a catalyst.
That came this year, when everything gelled for my Mom to get ready to move to a smaller place. So, she’s got to empty out the old house. Including my 80’s era Atari computers (yes, Atari made computers!), my voluminous book collection, and my Star Wars figures. Also, my art.
Origins & Echoes emerged, becoming an overview of my career, which also just happened to be taking up residence in the house I grew up in*.
*Except for Go Beastie Ranger!, which is here in Japan, but is an inseparable part of the Beastie trilogy (1, 2, 3)
