Matsuda Kika "note"

A collection of drawings by Kika Matsuda, a Kyoto-based artist who says, "Since I was a child, my interest has been to draw the forms that catch my eye until I can capture the lines to my satisfaction." Using pencils and 0.3mm fine-point pens, her work ranges from abstract patterns to singular images that evoke individual stories. Her cross-sectional, side-view imagery and the movement of perspective that travels between the micro and macro seem to reveal another side of the same world. This book reproduces the drawings—composed of brilliant, precise, and dense lines created as part of her daily routine—along with the very notebooks she uses, right down to the thinness of the paper, produced by the Kyoto Risograph studio "Hand Saw Press." It is an unpretentious artist's book that brings the reader as close as possible to the work she has continued to create day after day.