It's nothing new to the fact that many musicians, writers, painters, dancers, sculptors etc. find great pleasure and even beauty within the martial arts.
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Alyse Bernstein has been practicing aikido, "the art of peace," for five years now, but she hasn't limited the martial art practice to the mats. She's translated the discipline and grace of the form to her first art, printmaking.
Bernstein received an Independence Foundation Fellowship in 2003 to go to Japan, where she trained with the grandson of the founder of aikido, studied with one of the few female instructors in Japan and apprenticed with a papermaker.
When she began working on the prints, she found similarities between the two art forms. "I wanted to stick with a traditional Japanese art, so I took some woodblock printing classes, and had to re-learn the art," she says.
"There was this parallel to aikido training. With aikido, you have to practice, practice, practice. And I had to keep re-cutting these boards [for the woodcuts]."
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