Peel of Print 6

Peel of Print 6 reduces the surface field, with larger peeled regions exposing the support and a corresponding contraction of the inked zones. The compositional shift between this print and the more layer-dense earlier members of the series demonstrates the range of registration the technique permits: from accretion-led images to subtraction-led ones. Mixed-media print on paper, in Abe's working procedure, encompasses both states and treats them as coordinates within a single technical language rather than opposed methods. The result is closer in spirit to contemporary print practice than to nishiki-e or other Edo-period multicolor woodblock idioms, though the underlying concern with how pigment meets washi remains continuous with that older tradition. As the sixth in an eight-print run, the work indicates that the series resolves not through narrative progression but through the systematic exhaustion of variations on a single material proposition. Abe has pursued this kind of serial procedural work since training at Kyoto Seika University in the early 2000s.