WABI SABI PRINTHAUS

This is the digital merchandise storefront of Kansas City-based printmaking artist Nate Crosser. Nate Crosser practices art as a form of experimental meditation and physical memory. Each block he carves becomes an embodiment of ideas, life events, or glimpses of wordless forms from the ether. Using these blocks to create visual compositions, Crosser finds, follows, and weaves threads in his experience. For Crosser, art is a form of thinking that is often pre-intellectual, with meaning forming during the creative process. As an avid reader, his works are inspired by the philosophies of his favorite writers, such as the Taoism of Ursula Le Guin, absurdism of Kurt Vonnegut, individuation of Herman Hesse, collective unconscious of Carl Yung, Shinto naturalism of Hayako Miyazaki, and Metaphysics of Quality of Robert Pirsig. As a practitioner of Sōsaku-hanga printimaking, Crosser experiments equally in both process and form. The result is his own unique synthesis of traditional Eastern, Western, and naive printmaking techniques. His Japandi visual style is inspired by wabi-sabi and Bauhaus design aesthetics. Crosser believes that handmade art should be accessible, imperfect, and functionally evocative for both patron and artist.