Meesterwerken van Seiho 1937

Takeuchi Seihō made this book, Meesterwerken van Seiho, and it's a wild dance of motifs and marks! I’m thinking about the moment of making this, when the artist stood before the surface, loaded their brush, and then let it fly across the page. Can you imagine the artist’s concentration, the way they must have felt so in tune with the materials, the ink almost alive? Look at the surface. The color and surface textures are so different and then there’s the inscription that looks freshly laid! It's all about the interplay of textures, color, surface and the physicality of the medium. It reminds me that we artists are all in this ongoing conversation, inspiring each other's creativity across time. It's not just about the final product, but the whole messy, beautiful process of making.