Rainbow

Rainbow offers Fukita an opportunity to exploit the full chromatic range achievable through multiple woodblock impressions on washi. A landscape subject by classification, this print likely abstracts the arc of spectral color into a structural element — a banding or sweeping passage that organizes the pictorial space rather than describing a specific location. Fukita's experimental approach to color means the rainbow is not rendered literally but interpreted: its hues may shift unexpectedly, compress into unexpected adjacencies, or dissolve at their edges through bokashi gradation. The arc form itself, a fundamental compositional device, may divide the composition into sky and ground registers or function as the sole figure against a minimal background.