Fleeting Moments

The visual language draws on archetypal Japanese compositions: spare landscapes, stylized trees, architecture nestled in nature. Yet, here these elements are rendered in soft, frosted lines and stipples born from chemical etching, which substitute pigment for absence, and woodgrain for the pristine, cool body of glass. The result is imagery suspended in a delicate tension between presence and absence, solidity and transparency.

What distinguishes these works is not simply the transfer of imagery but the thoughtful activation of environment. Displayed slightly raised from their mounting surfaces, each circular glass panel is designed to cast ambient shadows and reflections, extending the etched forms into the realm of light and air. This calculated interplay makes the work performative: the etched images do not end at the glass but find afterimages on the wall behind, shifting as the day advances or as the viewer moves. The static “print” thus becomes dynamic, provisional, and truly site-responsive.

Technically, the marriage of chemical etching and glass supports an expanded notion of what can constitute line and texture. Instead of ink pressed into paper grain, these panels test the boundaries between material and immaterial, inviting viewers to witness nature’s forms not only as images but as luminous, ever-changing projections.