Sample lithograph 03 (Roses Remembering or Dissolving Perspective series)

This sheet belongs to Hoshino's Roses Remembering or Dissolving Perspective series, a strand of her lithographic practice that turns from the architectural and literary preoccupations of the Borges cycle toward botanical and atmospheric subject matter. The title's pairing — roses that remember, perspective that dissolves — signals an interest in lithographic surfaces that resist firm spatial reading: blossoms emerge and recede within fields of soft tonal modulation, edges blur, and the picture plane oscillates between flat pattern and suggested depth. Technically she builds these effects through multiple stones, layered washes of tusche, and selective use of crayon to retain a granular, drawn quality. The series sits within a wider tradition of Japanese printmakers who have used the rose as a vehicle for studies of impermanence and memory, but Hoshino's treatment is closer in sensibility to the painter-lithographers of mid-century Paris than to nihonga floral imagery. It demonstrates the same patient layering that defines her Borges-themed work.