BUSEKI Suikō (born 1958, Tōkyō)

Nagisa “Shoreline”

Aya-gumi, twill plaiting

Born into a family lineage of bamboo basket makers and trained first by his father, Buseki Suigetsu, then by Iizuka Shōkansai, Buseki Suikō carries forward the prestigious legacy of the Iizuka school while developing a sculptural language of remarkable rigor.

In Nagisa, a slender form, taut like a hull, aya-gumi plaiting creates an oblique structure in which the bamboo strips intersect in a supple, continuous diagonal rhythm. Through the interplay of line and void, density and lightness, the work evokes the shifting edge of the shore, as though tracing a moving boundary between stability and erasure.