Memory for a Lamb
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
A title of direct emotional weight — the memory of a lost lamb — suggesting a print that occupies elegiac territory: the animal no longer present, its absence registered as a kind of grief. Sekino's occasional works with memorial or commemorative titles engage with loss in the indirect mode characteristic of Japanese aesthetic sensibility, the named animal becoming a stand-in for more general experiences of impermanence.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Memory for a Lamb was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Memory for a Lamb depicts animals and abstract.