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Toshio Sekiji
Toshio Sekiji explores the merger of cul-
tures in collage weavings like Vertical to
Horizontal and Vice Versa (Reading Be-
tween the Lines) using repurposed news-
papers, maps, and book pages. New sto-
ries are created atop the old by reading the
strips of papers and the areas he has en-
hanced with lacquer. He intertwines strips
of paper from various cultures, rewriting
messages and imagining a harmonious
confluence of disparate cultures, languag-
es, and nationalities – different than the
facts on the ground.
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37ts Vertical to Horizontal and Vice Versa
Egyptian, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Romanian, French, Italian, German, British, Indian (south and central), Burmese,
Chinese (Beijing and Sinkiang) Taiwanese, Korean, American (including New York Times) print, Japanese, lacquered newspapers
141.75” x 39.25”, 2011