Untitled (Morisue 05)

A small-format intaglio etching in Morisue's continuing series, this print sustains her attention to the ordinary — the kind of common household object or fragment of found paper that organizes her practice. The character of the etching is built up of incised line, possibly worked in combination with aquatint or drypoint passages, transferred from copper or zinc plate to dampened paper under the press. The resulting impression carries the embossed bevel of the plate edge as part of its physical record. The intimate dimensions of these works are not incidental: the scale obliges the viewer to approach, slow down, and look as carefully as the artist did when she drew the plate. Morisue, born 1982 in Kyoto and an MFA graduate of Kyoto City University of Arts (2009), works within a contemporary Japanese print culture that takes intaglio seriously as a medium for slow looking. Gallery Hosokawa in Osaka represents her, and the 3rd PATinKyoto Print Art Triennale presented her work in 2022.