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HOSSEI

HOSSEI doesn’t always want to know what his work is about, “For me, it’s more about a feeling, and I want you to feel something when you witness my work. I want you to be moved by the shapes and the colours, movement and sound.”

HOSSEI’s practice is guided by a knot in his belly, or a clenching of his heart. His intuition is his primary medium forged by his particular method of regulating emotions and responses to whatever life gives and takes. It’s a tool that will continue to evolve.

He says “Intuitiveness is like a sense that I feel gets regularly associated with being unintelligent or something. I disagree, I’ve found

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