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Beauty of Sense of Touch

----------------------- Shigenobu Kimura (Art Critic)

Taeko Tomoda is a paper artist. She melts herself already stained papers of calligrafhy to make material. Here, she does not use popular method of "nagashi-suki", in which melted paper is drained by swaying the strainer. Instead, as in dyeing yarn before weaving, she pours gradated sumi(Japanese ink) on emulgent pulp and let it stand to evaporate, so-called "tame-suki", to make the material what she really aims. She refers to above process as "I realize my sense of touch on paper as a stage". Visual experience is wide while tactile impression is deep, thus is called the sense of life. In German, fuhlen(sense) and tasten(touch), or Gefuhl(feeling) and Tastsinn(sense of touch) are used similarly. This sense leads her to find something new[araki] and to feel vivid[araki] on rough[araki] material her unique methed of "tame-suki" has produced. The essence of Taeko Tomoda's art is based on this [araki] beauty of both material and form.

----------------------- (Translated by Sumiko Imada)


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