Untitled (Morisue 03)

This intaglio etching is part of an ongoing untitled series in which Morisue isolates a small object — likely a domestic implement, a textile remnant, or a piece of found paper — against an otherwise empty field. The technique permits dense passages of cross-hatched line where description requires it, and broad areas of unworked plate elsewhere, so that the depicted thing reads as separated from but equal to its surrounding white. Aquatint or drypoint accents are common in plates of this kind, contributing soft tonal washes or the velvety burr of a directly incised line. Morisue completed her MFA in Printmaking at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2009 and has remained in Kyoto, working in the small-format intaglio idiom that distinguishes her from the larger contemporary print formats more typically seen in Japanese gallery contexts. The 2022 PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale included her work, and Yoshiyoko Hosokawa of Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka, has spoken of the warmth and subtlety of these studies.