Passed Days
- Date:
- 1962
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 62.2 × 50.8 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: As a member of the Yoshida printmaking dynasty, Chizuko's work benefits from family name recognition. Abstract nature prints are most collected.
Created in 1962, Passed Days is a woodblock print in ink and color on paper that meditates on the accumulation and recession of lived experience. The title suggests retrospection, a looking-back that transforms specific memories into generalized emotion. Chizuko Yoshida's abstract approach to this temporal subject avoids the nostalgia traps that representational imagery might fall into; instead of depicting particular scenes from the past, she creates visual fields that evoke the texture of remembered time. The woodblock process itself is relevant here, as each printed layer is laid down in sequence and cannot be undone, building the final image through an irreversible accumulation of impressions that parallels how days pass and settle into the strata of memory.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Passed Days was created by Chizuko Yoshida (吉田千鶴子) in 1962.
Passed Days depicts abstract.
Passed Days measures 62.2 × 50.8 cm.
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