Stone Door
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- robynbuntin
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Tajima's powerful abstract prints have appeal among both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
"Stone Door" invokes the heavy, silent threshold of stone — ancient and immovable — as a compositional and metaphorical subject. Doors in Tajima's work, like walls and shrines, function as sites of boundary and transition: the limit between inside and outside, the known and unknown. A stone door specifically suggests great age and permanence, a threshold that has been crossed many times by many presences now invisible. The print likely renders this through blocky, immovable forms and a palette of mineral grays.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Stone Door was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之).
Stone Door depicts architecture and abstract.
