Born in 1980 and based in Shizuoka, Japan, Takeru Iwazaki is an artist whose practice grew out of street culture and the improvisational energy of abstract hip-hop. He first picked up his pen inspired by the raw intensity of live music and urban expression, which soon converged with a deep fascination for natural phenomena. The flow of water, the branching of trees, and the unseen rhythms of the natural world became enduring motifs, shaping “flow” as the central philosophy of his work. In his drawings, this energy is distilled into sweeping, graceful lines—dense yet expansive, mostly black—that oscillate between harmony and chaos. Each composition unfolds like a visual performance, carrying the immediacy of improvisation while immersing the viewer in a space where sound, movement, and nature converge.