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Stone Door by Hiroyuki Tajima — Japanese Woodblock print

Stone Door

by Hiroyuki Tajima

Medium:
Woodblock print
Edition:
Self-printed
Source:
robynbuntin

Description

"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.

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Stone Door was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之).

Stone Door depicts architecture and abstract.