art delivery : 08.16.21

Pencil on paper. That’s it. This is the quiet and exquisite work of Japanese artist Izumi Akiyama. The way she uses negative space, building her drawings up around the white space is slow and, oh, so beautiful. Izumi employs the use of ‘yohaku’ in her artwork, which is:

… one of the six elements of Japanese beauty. This element represents a pause, or bla…