KEIICHIRO HAYAMIZU
Keiichiro Hayamizu is an artist based in Kagoshima, Japan, whose practice centers on the handcrafting of washi paper using kōzo and mitsumata fibers. After graduating from Tama Art University, he studied traditional handmade washi techniques in Mino, Gifu, one of Japan’s historic centers of papermaking.
Hayamizu’s work explores the quiet material presence that emerges through repetitive processes of layering, immersion, and touch. Using washi in combination with materials such as wood, bamboo, and clay, and often incorporating lacquer, he creates surfaces that both conceal and preserve the intrinsic qualities of the underlying forms. Rather than emphasizing fixed shape, his practice attends to the subtle transformation of materials over time.
Through the accumulation of fibers, textures, and traces of handling, Hayamizu seeks to reveal an understated sense of depth, temporality, and presence embedded within the material itself.
