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Q&A with Misaki Kawai
How often do you draw, and what role does drawing play within your broader artistic practice?
I always have a sketch book and pencil with me. Drawing is the basic idea for everything.
Also start point for going any direction like sculptures, installation, poem, music cooking and play etc…
So I guess drawings is my brain!
What can drawings express that painting, text, or sculpture cannot?
Drawing is the minimum and simple message that is core of idea. Also, an international and universal language. We can communicate with drawings.
How do you think about the physical aspect of drawing, especially within our increasingly digital culture?
I think that papers and pencils are still the best tools to record our ideas. There are all kind of papers and pencils you can feel, smell and bite…
We better keep our warm hearts each other as 3D animals on the earth.
Asger Jorn wrote that “every line drawn freely is a protest against control.” In your own practice, what forms of control—artistic, social, or internal—are you resisting when you draw?
Free from general ideas…
Upside down. Inside out. Brain massage. Let’s play!
Back to the cave life. Simple life will give us creativity.
Henri Matisse spoke of approaching art with the eyes of a child—discovering rather than depicting. How has your relationship with drawing evolved over time, and how do you channel that childlike, instinctive sense of discovery in your current practice?
No think! Just draw and play!
Hope my drawings are getting worse and worse.
Hahaha…
Misaki Kawai is currently a part of Gardeners, a group exhibition with Asger Jorn, Robert Nava, Misaki Kawai, Joe Bradley, Eddie Martinez and Tal R
Eighteen | January 23 – March 7, 2026
