Dance & Calligraphy

Movements in Scrolls 04/05/2021

2021
Lithography ink and Kanami Kusajima dance movements on paper
15 x 24 in

Ink capturing dancer's footsteps while she improvised in Washington Square Park.

Movements in Nature 02/18/2021

2021
sumi-e ink, Kanami Kusajima dance movements, and snow, on paper
24 x 30 in
Capturing dancer’s movements with ink on paper in Washington Square Park.

Undus Mundus (no. 1)

2020

sumi ink on rice paper

27 x 14 in

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Movements in Oil 02/25/2022

2022
Oil paint, Kanami Kusajima dance movements on canvas

50 x 60 in

Working inside in the studio, capturing dancer’s improvised movements with oil paint on canvas

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Movements in Nature 02/18/2021

2021
sumi-e ink, Kanami Kusajima dance movements, and snow, on paper
70 x 42 in
Capturing dancer’s movements with ink on paper in Washington Square Park.

Scroll

2019

Photograph of body prints with water on calligraphy practice scroll before it evaporates

The dancer becomes my brush with a mind of her own. I am removed from the directness of making marks unique to my body and movement and I observe and guide the evolution of the work with placements of ink, paint, and objects, as well as the challenge of natural elements as Kanami Kusajima moves and explores different mediums and supports. Following an investigation of Eastern calligraphy where one clears the mind and allows for the hand to lead and move with brush and ink across the page, I’m interested in how these two ways of mark making coincide.

PRESS

Dancer Brings Joy to Washington Square Park with Performances, Bob Krasner, amNY, 2021

Inversion of the Inner World, Zine edited by Kate Meadows, DISCOVERING AYN: Andy Warhol, 2022