work (silkscreen on canvas) — Tama 1

This work belongs to Miyauchi's investigation of how a painter's brushstroke is transformed when it passes through the silkscreen process. The "Tama" designation links it to her sustained engagement with Tama Art University, where she completed her MFA in 2023 and currently holds a Research Assistant position in the Graphic Arts Course. Printed in water-based ink on raw canvas, the work reads first as gesture — a brush-mark recorded, photographically rendered as a stencil, then pulled through mesh — and second as edition. The canvas support, more typical of painting than of printmaking, is itself part of the inquiry: it preserves the physical scale and tactile presence of the original gesture while subjecting it to the seriality of print. This first Tama plate sets the grammar of the series: a discrete mark or compact passage of marks isolated against the unprinted ground, with the texture of the canvas weave reading through translucent passages of water-based ink.