What is worth talking about in art eludes language. Aesthetic experience is without words like
a human encounter that touches upon our innermost being. Etsu Egami is interested in the
margins of understanding where the communication of ideas and feelings threatens to fail
where forms become illegible. That is the point on which she homes in with her brush which she
wields in a rough calligraphic style putting almost translucent oil paints on the canvas.
Spectral faces emerge that dissolve into abstraction abstract forms beheld from the corner of
one's eye momentarily coalesce into a likeness. Painting to Egami is a physical and
performative act the brush an extension of her arm bringing a picture into being in sweeping
rhythmical motions. As we contemplate her work that momentum imparts itself to us: first our
eyes begin to wander then we feel our bodies stir and finally the spirit too pulsates in
the rhythm of the brush. Gathering Egami's most outstanding works this catalogue is a
universal invitation to join a peculiar dance an arc of light the artist traces across all
barriers to understanding and that speaks to our senses.
