(A note from the press)
I’m Ha. I’m a wanderer, a climber, and the ink-stained hands behind Tako Press.
Since I was a child, I’ve had a restless need to turn the intangible into the real. I didn't just want to see the world; I wanted to touch it, mold it, and understand its texture. For me, making has always been the most honest way to process the chaos of a question or the stillness of an idea.
THE ANALOG MINDSET
I discovered lino printing during my Master’s at the University of East Anglia, and the world finally slowed down. I fell in love with the friction.
The resistance of the blade against the block. The rhythmic "shloop" of the roller. The quiet trust required when you finally press paper to ink. In a world of digital perfection and "undo" buttons, I chose the beautiful error. Because in print, no two artifacts are ever the same. That’s where the truth lives—in the slight misregistration and the heavy grain.
WANDERING & WONDERING
Tako Press isn't just about the finished print; it’s about what fuels the work.
When I’m not in the studio, I’m chasing presence elsewhere—scaling a rock face, getting lost in a cozy digital world, or walking through the city at midnight when the shadows are sharpest. These moments of adventure and small everyday rituals are the "field notes" that I eventually carve into my blocks.