Portfolio Bonds of Wind, No. 4

As the fourth plate in Hayashi's "Bonds of Wind" portfolio, this etching contributes to a curated set in which a single subject — wind as binding line — is developed across multiple sheets. The portfolio structure differs from his open-ended numbered sequences in that the plates are conceived together: each carries its own image while participating in a shared formal vocabulary, so that comparisons between sheets are part of the work's intended reading. The print likely offers a variation on the woven, twining linear imagery running through the portfolio, with passages of fine etched and drypoint line set against aquatint tone and, where present, chine-collé inserts of gampi paper to lighten or layer the ground. The small format and translucent surface are consistent with his mature intaglio practice, in which restraint of scale supports density of mark. Within his wider output, the Bonds of Wind portfolio sits alongside the Nest of Winds and Twining Winds works as part of an extended meditation on what an invisible subject can become when translated into the deliberate, slow procedures of intaglio printmaking.