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the wall of self_gshs3s by Masayuki Tsubota — Japanese Gesso on basswood, 2015

the wall of self_gshs3s

by Masayuki Tsubota

Date:
2015
Medium:
Gesso on basswood
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

This image doesn't show a Japanese woodblock print — flagging it rather than writing a print description for it.

What the image actually shows: three pale, off-white rectangular relief panels hung in a row on a plain white gallery wall, each carved with dense fine linear ridges (vertical grooves on the two outer panels, a diagonal split across the middle one), lit from the upper left with soft shadows cast beneath and between the panels. That's consistent with the stated medium, "gesso on basswood" — a carved/coated relief sculpture, not ink-on-paper woodblock printmaking — and the title "the wall of self_gshs3s" has the look of a corrupted or auto-generated slug (trailing random suffix) rather than a real print title.

Given the active content-recovery/fabrication cleanup work on this branch, this looks like a mismatched record that belongs in the museum-review queue rather than getting a fabricated ukiyo-e-style description. Want me to log it there instead of generating catalog text for it?

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the wall of self_gshs3s was created by Masayuki Tsubota (坪田昌之) in 2015.