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fairytale boy told me to check this out, Printzero studios , and his lecturer's work from his previous school, Oregon State University, Yuji Hiratsuka.

""I use only primary colors and black, rather than secondary color mixtures." (1987) Yuji Hiratsuka

medieval landscape, 2002
japanese print

"The most important imagery that I use is drawn from a template directly onto copper plates. The templates I use are symbols and signs dealing with contemporary culture: chemistry, electronics, music, letters, numbers and signals. The meaning of each individual shape is not as important to me as the relationship it has to me to the surrounding images and to the composition as a whole." (1987)

Yuji Hiratsuka

chappy chopper , 1994

japanese print

"I like to express the humorous and serious aspects of disorder and chaos. Human existence is complicated by many thoughts, feelings and interpretations." (1987)

"In my portraits I always leave the face blank or flat. I do not draw eyes, noses or mouths on my portraits. The human face is always changing. Aging faces the face also. I want the viewer to add his or her interpretation to the work. The area around such a portrait is ambiguous so that the viewer can complete not only the facial features but also the mood of the entire portrait." (1987)"

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