lost image photograph 25-01

"lost image photograph 25-01" is the first numbered work in Kanda's 2025 silkscreen series and the print selected for the 68th CWAJ Print Show. The title frames the work as a translation of photographic source material into screenprint — a process in which the original image is mediated through screen mesh, halftone reduction, and squeegee-pulled ink layers, generating a loss of tonal fidelity that the title acknowledges as content rather than as artifact. The 66 × 51 cm sheet sits within the larger format range used for contemporary Japanese exhibition silkscreen, allowing flat color fields and photo-emulsion stencils to register at scale. Kanda's training — first at Kyoto City University of Arts, then through the graduate program at Tokyo University of the Arts — places him within the photo-silkscreen lineage that Tetsuya Noda developed at Geidai, where photography functions as a print register rather than a documentary record. The "lost image" framing points to deliberate degradation — overprinting, misregistration, or tonal collapse — deployed as compositional strategy across the numbered series.