About Choro

This dewdrop world — 

Is a dewdrop world, 

And yet, and yet . . . 

—Issa

ARTIST

Choro is a seeker, adventurer, and lover of nature and poetry. As a practitioner of Zen Buddhism, Choro is deeply connected to the natural world, finding greatest joy by the ocean, hiking, camping, cycling, bikepacking, and foraging for materials to make ink.

Cultivating stillness, looking deeply into the nature of things, and living a life of non-harming provide the landscape of Choro's life and art. Meticulous abstract drawings in ink on paper are the core of their practice — meditation in art form, capturing moments of presence and the interconnected beauty of all beings. Each work emerges through thousands of small, deliberate marks.

The work asks viewers to slow down and recognize that attention itself is a form of love.

PROCESS

With one glance at Choro's work, a larger story appears. Inside circles and abstract shapes, viewers find tiny marks, each deliberately placed within a span of a breath. Their process is an act of living meditation, bearing witness to a story, a feeling, or a part of our universal human experience.

Choro's work begins not inside the studio, but in nature. Their own ink is made by combining foraged and gathered elements over a series of days with a specific intention in mind, collecting dirt, stone, leaf, nut, flower, essential oil, feather, ancient seed—whatever is calling. Within a commission, ingredients are foraged specifically for the purpose or intention of the work, so the finished piece brings that intention fully to life. The entire universe, they say, is in every drop of ink and in every line.

In a moment defined by distractedness and disconnection, Choro seeks to inspire true attentiveness, offering works that serve as a quiet reminder of the healing role of meditation. To slow down and observe is an act of attention, and in that, an act of love.