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Bird Brush Artworks

To write is to touch.

A handmade brush crafted from bird feathers traces the line.
At the very threshold—whether touching the paper or not—
delicacy emerges, accompanied by a quiet tension.

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The Path of Bird Brush

Bird Brush 100 “Kaze” — Wind

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100 brushes, 100 lines, 100 breaths.

The first work of Bird Brush 100, created with one hundred brushes made from bird feathers. In homage to the artist’s name, “Tsubasa” (wings), the series began with a single feather.

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Bird Brush 100 “Memory of the Line”

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The moment of writing becomes memory.

A series that captures the very act of writing, recorded through moving images and accompanied by one hundred calligraphic works. It interweaves the memory of travel with the traces of writing.

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Hyakkakan-Circle of a Hundred Songs

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A structural experiment of thought layered through calligraphy.

A contemporary calligraphy video series that reinterprets the Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets) through Manyōgana and aligns it with the traditional Japanese calendar of twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two microseasons.

relation

Bird Brush Relation

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A series of 50 contemporary calligraphy works themed on “connection”

A fifty-piece contemporary calligraphy series on the theme of connection. Developed and presented online during a time of social disconnection under the pandemic.

sunandmoon

Sun and Moon

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Duality and Circulation

A contemporary calligraphy series on the theme of opposition and circulation. Through motifs such as the sun and the moon, a-un, and the relationships between planets and satellites, complementary concepts are expressed with the lines of the Bird Brush.

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