Negourukatachi — Nest of Wishes

"Negourukatachi" combines Japanese roots suggesting forms or shapes of wishing — negau (to wish) and katachi (form) — and serves as the umbrella title for a series of etchings in which Hayashi treats the print itself as a kind of vessel for intention. "Nest of Wishes" extends the recurrent nest motif in his work, here tied explicitly to the act of wishing rather than to wind. The image likely renders an accreted structure or container built from layered marks, the plate's surface treated as a place where intentions accumulate. Prints in this group typically employ Hayashi's standard intaglio vocabulary: fine etched and drypoint line over aquatint, chine-collé passages of gampi for translucent insets, and sparing use of plate tone. The thematic pairing of nest and wish situates the work within a strand of his practice that treats prints as containers for inward states rather than as depictions of outward subjects. Within the broader Negourukatachi series, this sheet contributes to an ongoing investigation of how form might hold something immaterial — wish, breath, prayer — across the sustained, deliberate procedures of intaglio.