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Ashok Mathur and Ayumi Goto
August 13 - September 6, 2025
ARTIST STATEMENTS AND BIOGRAPHIES
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dancing with washi #1
lines point skyward out of frame
embedded in earth gnarly roots
to push up twigs yearning for future life
flattened and impressed and living a thousand
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
embedded in earth gnarly roots
to push up twigs yearning for future life
flattened and impressed and living a thousand
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #2
organic circularities
not a phoenix but a sun
rising up from its own ashes
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
not a phoenix but a sun
rising up from its own ashes
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #3
glyph of eternal returns
dust to dust
cradling roots to another future
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dust to dust
cradling roots to another future
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #4
scythely slip along limber lumber
chip slender more than one way to skin
the lines vectoring toward the centre
that holds brush strokes papering a universe
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
chip slender more than one way to skin
the lines vectoring toward the centre
that holds brush strokes papering a universe
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #5
when the dancer cannot be seen for the dance
and chance encounters interpolate respoken histories
bespoke ancestries stir prophetic futures
in a moment of light shifting on water a caress of feathers
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
and chance encounters interpolate respoken histories
bespoke ancestries stir prophetic futures
in a moment of light shifting on water a caress of feathers
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #6
a light at the end of the factory gleams bright on widened pupils
the bodies at work at play at work to hone with hands and blades
the bustle and boom of bees following harvest
and whistle while we wait for the next stage
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
the bodies at work at play at work to hone with hands and blades
the bustle and boom of bees following harvest
and whistle while we wait for the next stage
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #7
precision in each strip, waxy pull
denuded
each strand a stretch of skin
left limbs the flotsam of the peel
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
denuded
each strand a stretch of skin
left limbs the flotsam of the peel
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #8
lean finger sticks
prepared for peeling down to bone
assemblage line
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
prepared for peeling down to bone
assemblage line
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #9
bark like a tree not a dog
there is
inner and outer and only the most velvet becomes
and she knows this from her birthplace and her resting place
for she is somewhere in between and still
she barks and breathes a hundred generations into mulch
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
there is
inner and outer and only the most velvet becomes
and she knows this from her birthplace and her resting place
for she is somewhere in between and still
she barks and breathes a hundred generations into mulch
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #10
#10
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #11
uncalibratable
move meant to movement
exposure too pronounced and too subtle
eyes shift to focus on the unfocussed
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
move meant to movement
exposure too pronounced and too subtle
eyes shift to focus on the unfocussed
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #12
和紙
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #13
reach for the sky
stretch for the fibre
and dance for the moment
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
stretch for the fibre
and dance for the moment
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
dancing with washi #14
i could have danced danced danced
All night
water perimeters and a dress fashioned of paper
and the dancing partner gingerly waving at the crowd
Shall we shall we shall we dance
All night
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
All night
water perimeters and a dress fashioned of paper
and the dancing partner gingerly waving at the crowd
Shall we shall we shall we dance
All night
(original framed platinum-palladium prints)
$2,500.00
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