Saturday

A woman in profile with a bobbed hairstyle sits sideways on a stool wearing a pleated, ribbon-tied dress and dark shoes, one hand extended holding a curled paper; a small dog lies on the floor beside her chewing another curled paper. They are set before a row of four arched, dark niches against a herringbone-patterned backdrop, rendered in sepia-toned etching and aquatint with columns of Japanese text below the image. Azumi Takeda, Saturday, 2011, etching and aquatint.