Ballpen — Artist Profile

LOXY JANG C.W.T.

Yūgen・Mono no aware・Wabi-sabi

Artist statement

Between repeated lines of hatching, I gradually began to see how color breathes. Even an ordinary four-color ballpoint pen can, through overlapping lines, tension, and intervals of white, unfold into an almost limitless range of color combinations.

I use C.W. as my pen name. I have worked overseas as an art director and, in Melbourne, as an art consultant appraising artworks.

Since spring 2026, I have used dense fields of hatching to record, with restraint, how a visual language takes shape through time.

I hope collectors smile at the value each work carries, and that artists who feel lost are more willing to believe in themselves when they witness a work coming into being.

If these traces can illuminate even a short stretch of road for someone temporarily lost, and offer a little strength to continue, that would be the most precious gift I could hope for.

Creative philosophy

I am drawn to imperfect things. Chipped, faded, worn down by time. They are incomplete, and therefore feel true.

Rather than dazzling moments, I am more easily moved by scenes on the verge of disappearing: rust, old photographs, the back of someone before parting, or the thaw of a winter long past.

When I work, I try to approach feelings that are difficult to explain. They are like mist, like dreams—impossible to see clearly, yet undeniably present.

My growth has been deeply shaped by Japanese aesthetics. I am learning to accept my ordinary, imperfect self; to depict moments that stir mono no aware; and to pursue the deep resonance of yūgen. Kenrokuen’s Six Attributes remain a measure by which I repeatedly examine both myself and my work.

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