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Label Text:
“The Surface Is the Between” is a concept Ida developed and explored in his largely abstract prints. For Ida, the surface stood for the point of contact between his ideas, which often blended his study of Eastern philosophy with an acute interest in nature, and the visible. As he once said, “You can’t see the wind […], but if you look at the branches of a tree moving you can see the force of the wind. Through my work I try to make invisible phenomena visible by showing the point of contact."

GM, 2019

Subjects:
Collage; screen prints; Silk

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