Arto Byrne
artobyrne.bsky.social
Arto Byrne
@artobyrne.bsky.social
Artist in Tokyo.
Through making, I observe and reflect on ambiguous traces—things not easily named.

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Reposted by Arto Byrne
Eugeen Van Mieghem, Cat
May 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I love technique not for its own sake but for what it makes possible.

— Arto Lindsay
June 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Reposted by Arto Byrne
You want to give the world some sort of spark that is not there.
— Diana Vreeland,
from The Gospel According to André (2017)
April 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
“This is the hand”—the hand that is felt before I say the word “hand” as a term; if that hand is felt deeply, it is well.

— Chuya Nakahara
April 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I remember a time
when things were still less than words,
had no form,
and were only resonance.
April 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It is not that a flower exists.
It is that existence flowers.

— Toshihiko Izutsu
Consciousness and Essence (1991)
(unofficial translation)
April 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM