Cloud Gate
Wheel Gate
Mesh Gate
Moon Gate
Open Gate
Wave Gate
Link Gate
Machine Gate
torii
Hand-printed linocuts with silver pigment on Usu Kuchi paper
94cm x 64cm each
Available at Bett Gallery
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.