The 365 Days of Each Person

A 2015 etching in which the title — 365 days of each person — already implies the form: a year-shaped accumulation of small individual lives. Takeda arranges the composition as a grid, calendar, or stacked sequence of figures, each occupying a small etched cell, with aquatint laid over the page to unify the disparate vignettes under a single tonal field. The intaglio process suits this kind of repetitive image-making, since the same plate state can be inked and printed across different sections of the design. The work belongs to the more mature mid-2010s phase of Takeda's practice, in which her earlier interest in small domestic episodes consolidates into longer-arc structures — a year, a schedule, a routine. Paired with Theme Running through 365 Days, made the same year, the print uses the calendar as a frame for the kind of repetitive weekly schedule that her women-at-home figures so often inhabit, and treats the year itself as a formal, almost compositional unit.