A Letter to End Things

Kalyani Bindu



Kalyani Bindu is an Indian writer and researcher. Two Moviegoers was her first poetry collection. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Kali Project (Indie Blu(e) anthology), 45th Parallel, Better than Starbucks, Half Empty Magazine, the Indian Express, New Asian Writing, Guftugu, and others. Check out www.kalyani-bindu.com to read her works.



The Celestial Map of Dream Sequences

Ryota Matsumoto

My work reflects the morphological transformations of our ever-evolving urban and ecological milieus, which could be attributed to a multitude of spatio-temporal phenomena influenced by social, economic, and cultural assemblages. They are created as visual commentaries on speculative changes in notions of societies, cultures, and ecosystems in the transient nature of constantly shifting topography and geology. 

There is a common thread with regard to visual abstraction in my artworks: the multiplicity of hybrid objects that unfold within their own spatiotemporal coordinates of phase space and are transcribed to an image plane. In that regard, the creative process of drawing can be defined as the swirls of virtual intensities that are reconfigured as the cartography of spatiotemporal transduction.

Furthermore, the varying scale, the juxtaposition of biomorphic forms, intertwined textures, oblique projections, and visual metamorphoses are employed as the multi-layered drawing methodologies to question and investigate the ubiquitous nature of urban meta-morphology, emerging realities of the digital hegemony, and their visual representation in the context of non-Euclidean configuration. The application of these techniques allows the work to transcend the boundaries between two- and multi-dimensional domains. 

The process-oriented compositional techniques henceforth conjure up the synthetic possibilities of spatial semiotics that emerge as the potential products of metastable procedures. They imbue the work with what we see as the very essence of our socio-cultural environments beyond the conventional protocols of architectural and artistic formalities.


Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, media theorist, and architect based in New York, and Tokyo. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at the Architectural Association in London and Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Glasgow School of Art. He has taught architecture, art, and interdisciplinary design as a lecturer and visiting critic in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

https://www.ryotamatsumotostudio.com