Sea-Water Drawing
Since the Fukushima disaster, Eizo Sakata has been experimenting as an artist with a different relationship to the world, concerned with preventing the ecological wounds of our planet and revealing the beauty and expressive power of the elements that constitute it: plants, rainwater, salt... His "Sea-Water Drawing" are the result of experimental and poetic protocols.
The salt crystals are deposited on the paper, unite with the chi ne ink and, as they dry, begin to glisten, sowing black suns, living and reactive areolas and halos. The paper receives these imprints, absorbs them tactfully, leaving them to fade, awaiting an almost amorous crystallisation.
In this process, which evokes the creation of the world, the artist intervenes with his instruments, his flasks and his pipettes, with a delicacy adjusted to the minute movements that are emerging and the wonders that chance keeps in reserve.
For him, drawing is a return to the sources and the origin, an approach to the nothingness that is like the whole of being, at the "point of creation" as we say "at the point of day", when there is only white and black and the only play of light and shadow.
text by Georde Quidet