torii

Hand-printed linocuts with silver pigment on Usu Kuchi paper

94cm x 64cm each

Bett Gallery Award solo exhibition

Artwork photography by Jack Bett

torii evolved from my daily walking ritual. Meditative and focused, walking connects me to place. The breath is the thread by which these worlds join, continually in motion, defining a threshold space within.

As gateways to Japanese Shinto shrines, torii mark a transition from the secular to the sacred. Abstract motifs from my home evolved as my own torii, hovering as apertures between a quiet inner space and the transient world without.