work5-1

Numbered titles such as "work5-1" structure Miyauchi's serial output: the integer indexes the matrix and the suffix identifies a state or variant pulled from it. Like the rest of her silkscreen-on-canvas work, work5-1 begins with a brush gesture made in the studio, photographed or otherwise captured, then converted into a screen and pulled by hand onto a stretched or unstretched canvas ground. Water-based ink penetrates the canvas weave rather than sitting on the surface as a film, producing a stained quality closer to dye than to traditional ink-on-paper printmaking. The result reads as a sustained mark held against unprinted field — the printmaking process arresting and multiplying a moment of brushwork that, in painting, would exist only once. Within Miyauchi's continuing investigation of the gestural mark as printmaking matrix, the numbered "work" series functions as an ongoing notebook: each plate isolates one brush event for examination as both image and edition.