Perspective Marathon 32/100

This screenprint belongs to Takamatsu's Perspective series, which he developed from 1967 as a sustained investigation into linear perspective as a culturally constructed convention rather than a neutral representation of vision. Compositions in the series typically employ flat geometric elements — squares, rectangles, or grids — pulled along exaggerated vanishing lines that recede toward an extreme horizon, so that the viewer registers the receding form simultaneously as flat shape and as illusionistic depth. The 'Marathon' subtitle suggests an extended sequence within the broader project, treating perspective itself as a process to be traversed rather than a fixed convention. Edition 32 of 100 places this within a relatively wide print run consistent with Takamatsu's interest in distributing his conceptual investigations through multiples. The screenprint medium allowed him to achieve the evenly weighted planes of color and uniform edges that the work's geometric logic requires, suppressing any trace of the artist's hand. The Perspective works coincide with his post–Hi Red Center turn toward analytical, systematic practice, anticipating the questions about representation and materiality that Mono-ha artists would take up in different terms in the early 1970s.