Cinq heures moins le quart

The title — French for "quarter to five" — introduces a specific temporal reference into a print catalogued as abstract, creating a productive tension between stated precision and visual indeterminacy. Clock faces and architectural fragments appear periodically in Minami's work as geometric counterpoints to her organic subjects, and this print appears to explore time as both measure and atmosphere. The abstract treatment suggests that the clock is present as form rather than function: circular geometry, possibly partial or fragmented, set within her characteristic open ground. Working in etching, she would have used line and tonal variation to define spatial relationships without conventional perspective. The French title, like many in her output, signals the European context in which these prints were conceived and exhibited while remaining accessible to an international audience.