Treadlie Magazine

BEYOND IMAGINATION

The first time Kosuke Masuda remembers creating something akin to art was when he began studying calligraphy at six years old. Born into an Esoteric Buddhist temple in Mt. Koya, Japan, he was constantly surrounded by Buddhist paintings and imagery – but it was the simple act of putting ink to paper that initially spawned his interest in creative (a style of ink painting), his work comes down to visualisation and touch.

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