3rd European textile and Fibre Art Festival - Catalogue

RYOKO SONE
Japan / Japåna
Born 1974
3-12-8 Minamikasugaoka Ibarakishi
567-0046 Osaka, Japan
Education
2007 Doctor’s degree, Kyoto
City University of Arts,
Japan
Selected exhibitions
”Selected Artists” in Kyoto,
Japan
2003, 2004, 2006 Solo exhibitions in
Kyoto, Japan
2005 Kyoto City Competition,
Japan
2004 Kyoto City Competition,
Japan
Awards
2005 Kyoto City Competition
Prize, Japan
I want to express feeling or mood that flow out
on a sudden moment in everyday life and it
is hardly expressed with words.
I intend to express this theme by a border
between the internal world that are like
memories, dreams or stories in my mind,
and external world which surround in everyday
life.
Because of this I draw hedges being tangled
with plants or cloth trembling in the breeze
as the motif in order to be felt space of
other side without cutting off completely
between inside and outside of the picture.
Stencil dyeing is one of Japanese traditional
techniques of textile dyeing. The form of
pattern comes out by cutting and leaving
the stencil paper. This characteristic expression
of stencil dyeing is usually expressed in
the relation between negative space that
becomes the background and form of pattern.
And I sometimes use this feature in reverse
way. I try to turn over partially the relation
on the picture.
Because of this I can get a little depth around
the subject and the trembling space like
waving in the picture.
In this picture the relations between the background
and the form of pattern, or the
shape and without the shape are created on
each time in the perception of spectator.
The cloth that holds the image, locates at the
border between the world that extends
inside of the picture, and this side of the
picture. The reality and unreality cross each
other in it.
This is my aiming to create the work.
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