No 102

As a numbered rather than titled work, this woodblock print belongs to a practice Ikeda employed when treating printmaking as sequential inquiry rather than finished statement. Without a title to anchor interpretation, formal and material qualities take precedence: the arrangement of carved areas, block registration if polychrome, and the relationship between printed mark and open paper surface. Numbered works in Ikeda's output often explore abstract or near-abstract territory, the number functioning as a catalog entry rather than a descriptive guide. The specific compositional content is recoverable only through examination of the impression itself, but the numbering implies membership in a larger, sustained investigative series.