Lisa Sewards | MONO NO AWARE I (the Night Sky)

2024

scrolled etchings, paper twine, solander box

14 x 14 x 4 cm

Boxed artist book. Six scrolls 12cm length, 2cm diameter, paper twine, archival solander box with gold leaf embossing, 14x14x4cm (closed), 14x32x3.5cm (open)

“An untranslatable term in Japanese is Mono No Aware, an acute sensitivity to the transience of short lived beauty, a melancholy awareness that such beauty will fade combined with a rich enjoyment. The sight of a star filled night sky provokes such an emotion like nothing else. Each of the scroll’s narrative refers to the celestial objects of the night sky from stars and planets, to moons and meteoroids”