Based in Japan, Mayumi Tsuzuki is an artist and illustrator creating Risograph-printed artworks. Using everyday scenes as motifs, such as people, houses, and plants, she expresses the extraordinary fantasy and madness that lurks in them by colourfully (and in some ways darkly) depicting the emotions and memories that spill over from the everyday.
Mayumi always incorporates ambivalent elements into her work, such as layers of depth and darkness amidst bright colours and cute yet somehow frightening figures. The everyday scenes that contain this ambivalence, with the slight displacement naturally formed by the overlapping colors, encompass a keen and delicate sensibility that cannot be satisfied by the carelessness of everyday life. Thus, Risograph is a very suitable technique to express this.
Mayumi uses an analogue x digital printmaking technique in which several plates are made from a finely drawn pencil drawing and finished with Risograph. With pencil gradients, she draws several black and white plates for each colour (cyan, yellow, magenta, etc.) for each piece, which are then used as Risograph printing plates.
www.mayumi-tsuzuki.com
@tsuzuki_mayumi
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