One Night

A nocturnal scene from 2014 in which Hayashi pairs mezzotint with chine-collé to layer a discrete area of toned or tinted paper into the inked field. Mezzotint suits night subjects: the rocker prepares a plate that prints solid black, and the image is pulled from that darkness by removing tooth where light is needed. Hayashi's night scenes resist incident or narrative — there is no figure acting, no event taking place — and instead render night as a condition rather than a setting. The chine-collé inset gives the composition a subtly different surface where it appears, often around a window, a lamp, or a reflected highlight. Made in the same year as Dream of One Day, this print belongs to the early phase of her independent practice, after relocation from Tokyo, in which she committed fully to mezzotint as a medium of slow, accumulating image-making.