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【Gallery Rin】Art Gallery, rental gallery in Kyoto, Japan

The Story behind the Work

From Gallery Rin’s perspective, we share some of the backgrounds, connections, and ways of seeing that surround Anne’s works.

A Note

Dao De Jing, Chapter 12

The five colors blind the eye.
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavors dull the palate ...

Muyonoyo　無用之用

“The usefulness of the useless” is a phrase derived from the Zhuangzi. Its direct source is a passage in the Human World chapter: Everyone knows the usefulness ...

Resistance

Muichimotsu literally means “having nothing” or “possessing not a single thing.” In Zen thought, the term has come to describe not only freedom from material possessions ...

Pinch Out / Good Trip

This work samples and reconstructs a fragment from Yokoyama Taikan’s Ryu-in (柳陰). The fragment itself has another history: Ryu-in is believed to have ...

The Way We See the World

Anne works in two strikingly different modes: calligraphic works drawing on philosophical texts and Zen expressions, and vivid, pop-inflected paintings ...

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