BIOGRAPHY

Tadashi Nishimori was born in 1974 in Nara, Japan—

a region where Shinto and Buddhist sensibilities quietly coexist in everyday life.

From an early age, his attention was drawn to the things around him.

There was no particular reason;

he simply continued to draw what appeared before his eyes.

 

His practice is grounded in a simple and steady attitude:

“Just look, just draw.”

 

For Nishimori, the world does not exist because he sees it.

Rather, it appears to him.

He responds to these appearances—

to the phenomena that arise—

with care and attentiveness.

 

The view of a table, the light in a room, a glass bottle,

the movement of trees, his own face in a mirror—

each is a moment of the world appearing to him.

Lines are not contours of objects but traces of that appearance.

Color becomes form, and form becomes color.

What is drawn exists, and at the same time, reveals its emptiness.

 

This sensibility quietly resonates with the Buddhist notion:

“Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.”