The Rinpa Eshidan

"Rinpa" is a word created by the founders of the group meaning "to bring people together, while "Eshidan" essentially means "art crew."
The Rinpa Eshidan is a team of artists brought together by a common creative expression.

Led by Noiz-Davi (Yoshiaki Kusunoki) and Daisuke Yamamoto, the group's main activities are performing in live painting events and creating videos of art in action. Instead of focusing on the finished project, we believe the process of creation itself is where art comes to life and our videos aim to engage our audience in that process.

In November of 2005, Daisuke and Noiz assembled a team of artists to participate in video projects where one painting was created after another, with each piece being painted over to make room for the next. We have created several films in this style since. Many people ask us how we can stand to erase the artwork we have worked so hard to create, but our focus is on the process of making art, not the end result. The good news is that the videos we make become a permanent record of the spontaneous artworks created during the filming.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Excerpts of a sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on 4/30/1967.