Our Philosophy
Painting Japanese Calligraphy In The Modern Western World
As cursive and even hand-written alphabets become increasingly obsolete in our modern age of digitization, a form of artistry is born in the preservation of the written word.
Japanese calligraphy is a unique form of expression. With characters surpassing 25,000, it is an absolute historical treasure and tradition.
experience like no other. Its an exercise in intellectual understanding and can evoke emotional responses even if you can't read a single character. There is immense historical depth and an immeasurable beauty in the living art of it.
Over the past few years, we've broken down the elements and experimented with fortunate success in taking this expression as far as we can. Challenging the boundaries of what tradition means when it faces the welcome embrace of Western cultural revolution.
What is exploration, if not for integration of new understanding and experimentation? We've found marvelous and extraordinary new applications of applying tradition with new techniques that have paved a path of expressionism and enlightenment that defines the style of artwork that we create.
You can witness the living marriage between Japanese shodo tradition with western freedom of expression and its unfettered array of colors inspired by all the vibrant hues of the Caribbean. We like to say it as it is, Japanese core values with the freedom of any confine of expression in any way. For us, our art is the expression of a cultural revolution that has been overdue in Japan for far too long.
Which makes our performances and art an act of rebellion. A personal, but shared experience of shedding the yoke of confinement to misogynistic and strict conformation to the old ways of thinking. It makes for true and genuine emotional expression that we welcome you to feel and be part of.
And it can be as mesmerizing as it is transcendent. Audiences will quite often watch our entire multi-hour process, as involved and invested as we are, to witness the expression of broad strokes that cascade substance, color and meaning. All the way down to the smallest detail. The individual strands of horsetail hair from a brush that captures every nuance of expression like a photograph.
Layer upon layer, we build meaning and purpose from our core foundation, up, out and off the medium to breath life into the sum of its parts into a coalescent whole. New purpose, new meaning, that is both instructive and illuminating to artist and audience alike.