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During the Imadate Art Field, an exhibition that takes place in Japan's Echizen prefecture, I was invited to create an audiovisual piece for the Echizen Museum. The exhibition focuses on handmade paper, and this year was the first time they were inviting artists from different disciplines to explore their view of washi (traditional Japanese paper) using their own visual narratives.
The piece I created is an interpretation of the ancient handmade process that is washi. I approached this as an experimental project, finding a narrative in the journey of paper making. I abridged the steps and focused on the natural materials and the paper, rather than the human action.
The process of making this paper is like a ceremony, almost spiritual, and this vision led me to create an oneiric piece about the making of washi. Flying branches interacting with each other, a drop of water starting the process, boiling strips of bark, an emerging sheet of paper from the water… This is the narrative I used in this piece. Almost like small, interlocked stories about the materials and their importance.
Washi is a solo project I created using Cinema 4D and After Effects, alongside plugins X-Particles
