Saori Mizuhashi
Born 1975, Kanagawa Prefecture
Saori Mizuhashi’s love of the kimono is inherited from her grandmother. At a junior college that offered training in crafts, she thought that yuzen textiles, which were only discussed in the classroom, with no hands-on training, were remarkably attractive. After graduation, she studied at a technical school that provided comprehensive education about the kimono. There she tackled her first yuzen project. Among the processes involved in its creation, adding color to a pattern is called "yuzen." At the moment when the pigment with which the brush is filled permeated the silk ground, Mizuhashi’s heart was stirred. “Could there really be something this lovely? It appeared, glowing.” Her memory of that moment is the attraction that directs Mizuhashi to creating, even now. When we asked, what part of the process she liked best, Mizuhashi said, without hesitation, “Applying the lines of paste.” Her work, Kimono, “Herd,” yuzen dyeing , has a pattern that appears, when seen from a distance, to be filled with flowers, but a closer look reveals great gatherings of images of Mareep and Flaaffy. The extremely fine white lines that express the soft contours of each Pokémon, their various expressions, and their swirling fleece all resulted from traces of lines of paste Mizuhashi applied.
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