Shelf under the Mountain (detail)

"Shelf under the Mountain (detail)" is a Lambda print — a digital photographic image laser-exposed onto chromogenic paper and face-mounted under acrylic — that depicts a shelf structure positioned beneath a mountain form. The "detail" designation marks this as a fragmentary view excerpted from a larger composition, drawing attention to the photograph's status as a croppable, reproducible surface. The face-mounted acrylic finish produces a glossy, depth-saturated plane that heightens the legibility of edges while flattening pictorial space. The juxtaposition of shelf — a domestic, modular, human-scaled object — against mountain compresses two registers of spatial experience into a single planar image. The work belongs to Hirata's broader investigation of expanded printmaking, in which the print is no longer a relief or intaglio matrix but a digital file routed through varied output substrates: Lambda paper, PLA filament, lenticular sheets, inkjet on tarpaulin. Trained as a sculptor at Musashino Art University, Hirata treats the photographic print as a sculpturally inflected object whose materiality resides in mounting and surface as much as in image content.