Glaukos

Glaukos (1965) — the marine deity of Greek mythology who achieved immortality through consuming a supernatural herb and leaping into the sea — appears in Hagiwara's portfolio as a study in transformation and the dissolution of identity into a larger element. The myth's core image, a human body changing as it enters the sea and merges with it, had obvious formal possibilities for a printmaker interested in the relationships between form, surface, and ground. The 1965 dating places this among the confirmed Greek Mythology portfolio works.