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2025 · Sumi ink on paper

Ink studies

Forty small sheets made in forty mornings, one brush, no corrections. Six of them survived.

A single dark brushstroke curving across cream paper, thick at the top and trailing to nothing.
01Morning 3 · 28 × 38 cm · sold
Two horizontal bands of ink with a pale gap between them.
02Morning 9 · 38 × 28 cm
A dense square of overlapping strokes with one gold line through the centre.
03Morning 14 · 30 × 30 cm
A tall sheet with three strokes stacked like a ladder.
04Morning 21 · 28 × 38 cm · sold
A wide sheet, mostly empty, with a small mark low on the right.
05Morning 27 · 41 × 28 cm
A circle drawn in one motion, the ink running out before it closes.
06Morning 40 · 30 × 38 cm

About this series

The rule was simple: one sheet a day before breakfast, one loaded brush, and no going back over anything. Most days produced something I threw away by lunch. The six here are the ones that still looked right a month later.

What the series taught me was not about ink. It was about stopping. Every sheet I ruined, I ruined by adding a second stroke.