Swing Swing Swing

Swing Swing Swing, edition 55 of 150 from 2008, uses the playground swing as both visual subject and rhythmic verbal motif — the repeated word mimicking the back-and-forth arc of the swing itself. Swings appear throughout childhood imagery across cultures, associated with physical joy, the sensation of height and flight, and the particular exhilaration of movement at the edge of control. Kaneko renders this universal childhood pleasure through his graphic vocabulary, likely emphasizing the dynamic arc and the figure in motion.