This powerfully executed calligraphic writing represents "Kuzusu", meaning “Crash”. Signed Ando Misaki, a multi-performer and contemporary artist. He is a professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design, as well as the Director of Kyoto International Arts Organization.

Ando Misaki (1943-) was born in Osaka city. He began to create paintings through self-study from the age of 17. Around the same period, learnt earthenware by traveling to various centers of pottery in Japan...