Mika Yoshizawa’s work represents a vibrant take on painterly abstraction. Executed in ink on vinyl, bold strokes convey speed and movement, a glossy brush sliding across a smooth surface. The work’s size is significant: the loops and arcs read as traces of the artist’s body at full stretch. However, its structure does not resemble the loosely defined gestures of abstraction; rather, it follows a tight, disciplined geometry. Typical of Yoshizawa’s work of the 1980s, the aesthetic here is angular and mechanic, while dynamic lines and solid planes of ink show the influence of commercial design and manga. With its odd combination of human gesture and a flat, post-industrial aesthetic, 1–5 could be mistaken for a product of the science fiction sub-genre of cyberpunk — an expression of the anxiety and excitement generated by technological development and its implications for the body and human consciousness.