Steel Tower

Steel Tower depicts a structural lattice — most likely an electrical transmission pylon or comparable industrial framework — rendered through the flat color planes and hard-edged geometry that define silkscreen as a medium. At 63 × 76 cm, the print sits within the mid-format range typical of CWAJ Print Show submissions, where it was selected for the 68th annual exhibition in 2025. Silkscreen permits dense, opaque color fields and sharply defined boundaries well suited to the linear geometry of steel construction; each color separation is pulled through a stencil rather than impressed from a carved block, producing the matte, planar surface characteristic of the medium. The subject continues a thread in contemporary Japanese printmaking that treats infrastructure — pylons, scaffolding, bridges, refineries — as formal subject matter, updating the architectural imagery found in Showa-era sosaku-hanga through the graphic vocabulary of screenprint. Doutou's selection in the CWAJ show situates the work within the cohort of KCUA-trained silkscreen specialists who have shaped contemporary Japanese print since the 1960s, working in a medium whose flat-color directness contrasts with the tonal layering of traditional mokuhanga.