lines (e.l)

"lines (e.l)" is a 2014 two-plate, two-colour etching on Arches paper made during Hamano's graduate training in the Printmaking Studio of Tokyo Geidai's Department of Painting, Oil Painting Major. The title locates the print within a sustained investigation of linear vocabulary that runs through her practice. The two-plate process allows precise registration of two distinct hues — typically used in her work to set a structural underlayer against a graphic line — while Arches paper, a French rag stock favoured by European intaglio printers, takes the full pressure of the press without flattening the plate-mark. The notation "(e.l)" reads as a variant designation within an edition. The work belongs to the same body that brought Hamano into the 3rd PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale circuit and aligns her with the precisionist tradition of mid-century European intaglio rather than with Tokyo's more painterly print lineages.