Key value factors: For living or recently deceased artists, limited edition size and gallery representation drive value. Signed and numbered prints from smaller editions are most desirable.
Touches 2J-CSB, a 1985 color woodblock on paper, belongs to the extended Touches series that occupied Yoshida through much of the 1980s. The series title refers to the physical contact between block and paper, the moment of impression when carved wood meets dampened sheet. Each print in the series varies the parameters of that contact: pressure, ink density, paper moisture, number of passes. The 2J-CSB suffix encodes these variables, making each print a record of specific conditions. Yoshida's systematic approach transforms the ancient craft of mokuhanga into a form of material research, each touch yielding different results from nominally similar inputs.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Touches 2J-CSB was created by Ayomi Yoshida (吉田亜世美) in 1985.
Touches 2J-CSB depicts landscapes and abstract.
Touches 2J-CSB measures 36.5 × 49.9 cm.
