●25-SG2-ART W3000mm×H2130mm hand colored
Price: ASKnumber : G03179
Artist : Shouya Grigg
Material : Washi (Japanese paper)
Area : Kutchan Towan, Hokkaido Prefecture
Dimensions : approx. W3000 × H2130 mm
"Lines Between the Visible"
These two works, created on hand-crafted washi and installed in traditional Japanese spaces, are explorations of connection—between images, between materials, and between deeper layers of the self.
Each panel stands as a complete thought, yet it is only through their relationship to one another that meaning begins to emerge. There is an invisible geometry between them—lines that echo, dissolve, and reform. Forests turn to fog, fog to shadow, shadow to snow. There is a conversation taking place in the silence.
In bringing these pieces together, I am also reflecting on what happens when we bring together people, histories, cultures, and selves. The act of juxtaposition—of allowing difference to sit side by side without forcing harmony—is at the heart of this work.
It mirrors my deeper inquiry: how can seemingly separate things—objects, ideas, people—begin to speak across the spaces between them? How can contrast deepen connection?
These paintings are not scenes. They are states of being. Meditations on impermanence. Invitations into stillness. A suggestion that beneath the surface of form, there is always more—more presence, more possibility, more quiet worth.
In a world that often rewards control, separation, and certainty, these works suggest a quieter truth:
that true power, true wealth, and true fulfillment are not found in dominance or division,
but in the quiet recognition that everything is already in relationship—
that we belong to one another,
and that beneath all difference, there is deep and enduring connection.
——Shouya Grigg