Mitsuaki Sora (Sora, Mitsuaki)

This woodblock print, whose title repeats the artist's name in both Western and Japanese name order, functions as a kind of self-portrait or artistic statement rendered through Sora's abstract visual language. Rather than depicting his physical likeness, the print may represent Sora's artistic identity or sensibility as expressed through the forms, colors, and textures that define his body of work. The doubling of the name in the title, with family and given names reversed, suggests an investigation of identity itself, specifically the way a person's sense of self shifts depending on context and convention. The print becomes a meditation on what it means to be an artist whose name is attached to objects that leave the studio and enter the world, carrying something of their maker with them.