Crown Point Press

""These works are handmade. They are about my relationship to material and to time." Yoshinaga makes his paintings on paper, usually with dry pigments rather than paint, working one square at a time with the paper folded. There is, he says, an "accumulation of touch." There are repairs, handling marks, like the Japanese fusuma, or sliding doors, built of light wood grids covered with paper and repaired as needed one square at a time. Although most people who see Yoshinaga's work describe it as beautiful, the artist is not thinking about beauty. What concerns him is "the life of the materials.""