Pen on paper, 2018

This illustrated essay is a collection of conversations and lines between Cindy Mochizuki and artists Midi Onodera and Louise Noguchi. I have deep respect and admiration for these two Japanese Canadian women and for their longstanding work in the disciplines of media arts and visual arts. Their practices have challenged artistic forms and visual language within, and outside, public institutions, artist run-centres, museums, festivals, web, and social media.

What We Saw and What We Didn’t See, Conversational Urgencies looks at connecting points between each of our visual practices, artistic processes, and ethical sensibilities while also considering why we make work, and who our audiences have become. I opened a dialogue through casual conversation and centered my inquires around perception as a tool of insight into Onodera’s and Noguchi’s artistic work and form.