About My Expression　　　　　　Kadosaka Ryu

I first started drawing as an expression with pencil. I encountered pen drawings and watercolor paintings due to my work as a book designer, and finally became convinced that the line matched the expression of my senses.

Around the time I published my pen drawing book "School of Wind Power," I began to develop presbyopia. I encountered copperplate engraving at a time when I began to lose the physicality of eye and hand movement that I had been experiencing and started to feel a wall.

The central work in this exhibition is called "engraving," a technique in which lines are engraved directly on a copper plate using a tool called a burin. Albrecht Dürer, who was born in Germany in the 15th century, is famous for this technique, and banknotes are also produced by engraving.

The pointy end of the burin's ridge is applied to the copper plate and smoothed into the inside of the plate. The work proceeds gently, as if marking time. The hand holding the burin is hardly moved, and the engraving is done by the force of the press and the rotation of the plate with the left hand.

The subject matter is the ever-fluctuating universe, and my eyes and hands resonate with its rhythms, and I try to control my mind so that my conception of the subject is as "nothing" as possible, and continue to paint as I see it."