変化・循環・その間の形 / Changes, Cycles, and Shapes in Between

mole^3 speculates that it was through Piet Mondrian’s art that Hiroshi Kawano, living in post-war Japan, may have sought to sublimate the negative emotions caused by the war through the pursuit of beauty. Her work, Changes, Cycles, and Shapes in Between, analyzes the process by which Mondrian arrived at his ultimate forms through an approach whereby shapes and colors evolved organically. In painting, “shape” has an axis of < figurative ↔ abstract > and an axis of < noise ↔ linear >, while “color” also has an axis of < noise ↔ linear >. Using a “component diagram of painting” (see below) as reference, mole^3 developed a means of cycling through multiple visual idioms at once, with the work expressing the cycle itself. In this way, Changes, Cycles, and Shapes in Between evokes a shifting state of digital materiality — a literal pattern of flow that oscillates between figuration and abstraction. By further incorporating textures printed using a baren, she has encoded her identity as a printmaker in natively digital form.