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visual artist & poet


Japi Honoo

LINES Gallery

ART-work

Contemporary digital drawing rooted in modern shunga.

Japi Honoo — Visual Artist & Poet

Exploring memory, desire, through digital drawing, poetry, and voice.
Traces of intimacy in image and word.


“Art is lack.
I fill it with obsessive, sensual, dense, and obscene passion, until it begins to reflect what burns within me.”

My art is born from a maddening fantasy: the desire to love an unattainable muse. Each drawing is a Lover Letter, a letter addressed to the Lover, traced through absence and shaped by longing.

I use the line to mark what the body forgets, remembers, or continues to seek.

My digital drawings inhabit a space between reality and fantasy. I offer fragments of myself, never the whole. Even when I reveal, I obscure. The line exposes my intimacy while keeping it unreachable.

The energy within each work is ravenous, yet undefined. There is no fixed narrative, no clear before or after, only the tension of desire made visible.

The line is sacred. The tension is ritual. My work pursues neither realism nor pure abstraction. It explores what emerges from an unspoken need from an absence: that seems to draw itself.

I write from the same wound from which I draw. In poetry, the body abandons its shape and becomes voice. Desire becomes rhythm, memory becomes breath, and intimacy enters language to reveal what the image cannot contain.

Drawing and poetry are two gestures born from the same absence: two ways of touching what is missing and tracing what still burns within me.

— Japi Honoo

written in absence

POET-ry

Italian poetry from the body: books, selected poems, letters and voice.

ARTshow

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From the screen into your space.

Lines / Karada no Kioku

Archival fine art prints.

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My Geishas — line works

Art printed on metal.

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Hanaseieki

Erotic anatomy in bloom.
Objects and wearable pieces.

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