Roots House

Roots House combines drypoint intaglio with silkscreen on a 232 x 210 mm sheet, working at the small scale Miyata favors for her domestic subjects. The title points toward a dwelling fused with its root system — likely a composition in which a house structure and underground tendrils share a single visual plane, collapsing the threshold between built shelter and the organic ground beneath. Drypoint's burr-laden line carries the dense blacks and feathered contours typical of the technique, while the silkscreen layer permits flat fields of ink that register against the etched marks. The pairing of methods is characteristic of her studio practice, which treats everyday domestic moments as junctures where personal and social identity briefly realign. Trained in Information Printmaking at Kyoto City University of Arts (BFA 2010, MA in Painting 2012), Miyata works within the Kyoto print lineage while pursuing a contemporary intaglio-silkscreen vocabulary distinct from ukiyo-e woodblock traditions. The work was selected for the 4th PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale 2025 on the recommendation of curator Yumiko Tatematsu of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.