yellow lines | Isamu Hazama

When I feel the need to refresh my mind or exercise my body, I regularly go into the woods, where I mow some weeds and observe plants and trees. As I was taking care of overgrown nanten trees, I noticed that the cambium layer of nanten was vividly yellow when reaped with a sickle. I had thought that nanten trees grow up straight, but each stem has its own unique way of growing: switching directions by breaking off in the midway, bending in arcs due to tangled ivy, and undulating to avoid an obstacle. I drew, or traced, yellow lines with a knife by scraping off the surface of one side. Before the bright yellow color was lost, I captured them in photographs and fixed them as prints.

pigment print on kozo paper from Tosa covered by handmade paper by author screenprint on cover
bound with kozo paper string
size:
20.5cm × 28.5cm
32 pages
ISBN:
978-4-9912712-2-9
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