In Profile: Toshiko Oiyama: Afloat

Toshiko Oiyama uses her artmaking practice to ask questions about the world around us. Through her new series entitled Afloat, Toshiko tries to understand the ways that we exist in a world that is both constantly in flux, and governed by the unbreakable rules of physics, which are unchangeable. She explores this paradox through the contrasting elements in her work – the free-flowing ink drawings that sit against the rigid pinholes that puncture the delicate paper with taut thread.

As Toshiko says: “We float in time and space. Things change, yet they remain the same. Scientists are searching for the Theory of Everything that creates and rules the universe. It is a comfort to know intuitively that there is such a law, even as we come out of and go back to nothingness.”