work (silkscreen on canvas) — Tama 2

The second Tama plate continues Miyauchi's translation of brushwork into screen-printed image, working in the same water-based ink on canvas idiom established in Tama 1. Compared with the first plate, this iteration develops the compositional argument of the pair: each silkscreen records a discrete gestural event, and the two together let the viewer read variation between brush moments while the printmaking matrix holds the surface qualities steady. Because the source mark is photographed and converted into a halftone or hand-cut stencil before printing, what the eye registers as immediate touch is in fact mediated — the trace of the brush is preserved at one remove, with the screen's open mesh substituting for the loaded bristle. Miyauchi's practice, developed during her BFA (2021) and MFA (2023) at Tama Art University, locates itself in this productive tension between painting's first gesture and print's reproductive logic, and the Tama works function as workbench studies of that translation.