SEATTLE REFINED
Artist of the Week: Saya Moriyasu
SEATTLE REFINED | July 20, 2024
Saya Moriyasu is a Seattle-based artist who uses green practices to create sculptures, paintings and drawings.
“Seattle Refined: How long have you been creating? What mediums do you work with?
Moriyasu: I've been creating art since I was young, influenced by my creative family environment. The Moriyasu family included those versed in painting, photography, tea ceremony, singing and dance. My father has his darkroom at home and we made shadowgrams. As teenagers, my sisters and I took black-and-white photographs and printed them in the darkroom. My Japanese parents moved to Portland (where I grew up). My grandfather had his painting studio in our home below our family room
Can you tell us about your artistic process and how the different stages work into it?..”