Holding 24-1

"Holding 24-1" (2024) is a medium-large format lithograph measuring 57 × 77 cm, the first numbered work within Kosaka's 2024 cycle of her ongoing "Holding" series. The horizontal orientation accommodates the abstract compositional vocabulary Kosaka has developed across successive iterations of the series, in which lithographic mark-making — drawn on either stone or aluminium plate — registers as gestural surfaces, layered tonal fields, and contained passages of pigment within the rectangular frame. The series title points to the conceptual premise of the work: forms gathered, contained, or supported within the picture plane rather than depicting recognisable subject matter. As a lithograph, the print relies on the planographic transfer of greasy drawing materials to dampened paper through a flatbed press, a technique that preserves the immediacy of the artist's hand without the carved matrix used in woodblock printing. The work belongs to Kosaka's mature practice as a member of the Shun'yokai association and reflects her training under the lithographer Eiji Nagai, situating her within a twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japanese lithographic tradition distinct from the nishiki-e woodblock lineages that dominate Hanga's wider catalogue.