885 1985

Funasaka Yoshisuke’s “885” is like a colour field day trip, a journey that navigates through calm turquoise seas into a soft pink horizon. I’m picturing Funasaka layering thin washes of colour, almost like watercolour, letting each layer dry before adding another. It's kind of meditative, you know? Thinking about the light, airy blues that frame the central field of faded rose, there's a delicate balance between the cool and the warm. Then those vertical marks dance, a playful rhythm cutting through the composition. They remind me of Agnes Martin’s subtle lines, but with a touch of quirk. I wonder what Funasaka was thinking, aligning those lines just so? Did one colour inspire the next? It makes you realize that artists are in a constant conversation, borrowing, stealing, and riffing off each other. So, here’s to paintings which embrace ambiguity and uncertainty!