Dream of One Day

Made in 2014, three years after Hayashi completed her MA in printmaking at Musashino Art University, Dream of One Day combines mezzotint with chine-collé — a technique in which a thin sheet of paper, often colored or textured, is bonded to the larger support during printing. The chine-collé element introduces a tonal or material counterpoint to the mezzotint's continuous black field, allowing Hayashi to set a quietly luminous patch within the surrounding darkness. The title points toward an image suspended between memory and imagination rather than direct observation: a remembered domestic scene, a half-recalled light. The print fits the period in which Hayashi was establishing the visual vocabulary that would define her mature work — interiors and objects rendered at the threshold of visibility, where mezzotint's labor (hours of rocking the plate before any image is drawn out) parallels the slow attention the image asks of the viewer.