Faces, No. 3

The third in a numbered series, this woodblock print continues Kinoshita Tomio's systematic investigation of the human face as a printmaking subject. Numbering the works suggests a sequential exploration, each iteration addressing a different aspect of the face or experimenting with a new compositional approach. "No. 3" implies that the artist has already produced at least two prior versions, each informing the decisions made in this one. The seriality of the project recalls scientific or typological studies that catalog variations within a single category. Kinoshita's faces are not portraits in the conventional sense; they do not aim to capture a likeness but rather to examine what makes a face recognizable as a face at all. The numbered format invites comparison across the series, encouraging viewers to identify what changed from one iteration to the next and to consider why.