Figure - 3

"Figure - 3" from 1968, worked on embossed paper with ink and color, represents Maki Haku's engagement with the human figure as abstract form rather than representational subject. The figure in his hands becomes a configuration of mass and space — a shape that carries the authority of the human body without requiring legible anatomy. Embossing gives the figure a physical presence that reinforces its material rather than imagistic existence, the raised surface making the form tangible.