Great Piece of Turf II (After Dürer)

A direct homage to Albrecht Dürer's 1503 watercolour Das große Rasenstück in the Albertina, in which a square of meadow is studied from the level of the grass itself, with dandelion, plantain, yarrow, cock's-foot, and creeping bent tilted upward into the picture plane. The II indicates a second iteration in Imazu's own series, and translation from Dürer's gouache and watercolour into etching and aquatint shifts the work onto a new technical register: bitten line carries the leaf blades and seed heads, while aquatint builds the deep ground from which they rise. The image substitutes Australian weeds and grasses for Dürer's German meadow species in keeping with her abiding subject, the overlooked plant life of the suburban verge, and aligns her studio practice with the long tradition of printmakers returning to the master's plant studies.