Where II

Where II, the second work in a series addressing spatial or existential location, uses combined intaglio and relief techniques to pursue the question of place in abstract terms. The title's interrogative character — Where? — positions the viewer as uncertain of position or origin, and Johnson likely built the composition around spatial ambiguity rather than resolution. Intaglio tonal passages may establish a diffuse sense of field or space, while relief-printed forms provide the more concrete marks that fail to add up to a legible location. As the second work in the series, the composition presumably develops or complicates the spatial premises of the first. Johnson's engagement with Japanese printmaking traditions, in which the relationship between figure and ground and between spatial planes is handled with particular sophistication, informs her approach to spatial ambiguity as both formal problem and expressive content.