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By [Author Name] – Senior Editor, Contemporary Art Daily

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American Minimalism is about geometry and the object’s relationship to the viewer’s body. It is mathematical. Japanese "Ma" is about the interval . It is the silence between two claps. The empty space inside a bamboo joint. Minimalism says: Look at this thing. Ma says: Look at what is not there. In my 2021 piece, Wind Score , I hung 1,000 sheets of rice paper from the ceiling. No glue. No weights. The artwork was not the paper. The artwork was the moment the door opened, the air shifted, and the papers breathed. That breath—that interval—is Ma. rie tachikawa interview full