The One Who Hides by the Window I

The first plate in a numbered sequence from 2012, this etching pictures a figure concealed somewhere along the edge of an apartment window — neither fully inside the room nor fully looking out, but caught in the marginal architecture that windows produce. Takeda uses line etching for the figure's silhouette and graduated aquatint for the interior light around it, the soft greys allowing the figure to half-disappear into the curtains, sill, or wall. The print belongs to a recurrent thread in her work in which household furniture and architectural features take on a slightly conscious quality, complicated here by the literal presence of a hider. The Roman numeral indicates a series, signalling Takeda's interest in returning to the same scenario across multiple plates — a quietly serial mode of working that aligns with her broader fascination with repetition. The work extends the voyeuristic logic of her 2010 Peeping Tom Waiter into a more compressed, single-figure composition.