Untitled (Morisue 01)

This small-format intaglio likely presents a single everyday object isolated against an open ground — the compositional approach Morisue has used to direct attention to overlooked household items and utensils. Etched line work, pulled by hand from a copper or zinc plate, allows the artist to register fine detail and subtle gradations of tone within a sheet that typically measures only a few centimeters across. The deliberate restriction in scale asks the viewer to step closer rather than further back, replicating the quiet, sustained looking that Morisue's process itself requires. Trained at Kyoto City University of Arts and based in Kyoto since completing her MFA in 2009, Morisue has developed a body of work rooted in the contemplative observation of common things. The print belongs to a continuing series of intaglio studies that Yoshiyoko Hosokawa of Gallery Hosokawa, her Osaka representation, has described as meticulously crafted, and which formed part of her selection for the 3rd PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale in 2022.