Brown Paper (Chairo no kami)

"Brown Paper" (Chairo no kami), 1974, edition 2 of 50, takes the material of Tajima's medium — paper — as its explicit subject, creating a self-referential work in which warm browns and textural layering evoke the washi ground itself. The flat, earthen palette and minimal compositional incident suggest a meditation on material and surface rather than a conventional subject. As an artist who was deeply engaged with the expressive properties of Japanese paper, Tajima here makes that engagement visible.