Well, all these pieces were still in the initial
drafts, and all the real brainstorming over what method to use to plot them out
in proper form is yet to come. But honestly, convenience store printers have
actually advanced quite a bit. The Xerox ones in particular are
high-resolution, and the ink and paper are properly developed, too. I gave it a
shot since it fit the mood of the output I was going for this time. Everything
was printed out the day before at a local convenience store in Kyoto. On the
other hand, there are also pieces at the show dating all the way back to 2010
that I put in the effort to have printed offset. These featured waterless
printing technology that forgoes any moisture so that the ink fixes to the
paper in a highly viscous state that makes each individual fine line stand out clearly even the big clusters of
lines that make up my creations. This type of printing is also praised as being
environmentally-friendly since it doesn’t produce
any contaminated water. I actually made an artbook called Print Line about such
advanced printing technologies from Japan for an exhibition at the École nationale
supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in France in 2008, but I’m sure
there were plenty of other people already tuned into this environmental issue
by then. But my guess things have changed quite a lot since then with all the
advances in social media or cloud and technologies (i.e. going paperless).