979

Catalog number 979, this 1988 woodblock print represents one of the later entries in Funasaka's numbered sequence as it approached the thousand-work milestone. The number carries its own weight, marking nearly a thousand individual compositional investigations conducted through the woodblock medium over more than two decades. Funasaka's geometric abstractions from the late 1980s likely reflect the accumulated formal knowledge of this extended practice, with each composition benefiting from the hundreds of preceding experiments in color, shape, and spatial arrangement. The 1988 date places the work in a broader art-historical moment when postmodern eclecticism dominated international art discourse, against which Funasaka's methodical geometric practice stood as a quiet counterpoint. The numbered series suggests an artist committed to depth over breadth, preferring to explore a single territory exhaustively rather than chasing stylistic novelty.