History (きろく)

Kiroku translates as "record" or "documentation" — an apt title for a printmaker whose practice she has framed as a process of inscribing personal history into copper. The metaphor is materially direct: the etched plate retains every mark, accumulating the artist's biography as a physical archive. The image likely engages themes of memory, scar tissue, and accumulated experience, possibly through a figural composition or a denser accumulation of marks and tonal areas. The print may belong to either her early line-etched phase or her later mixed-technique practice combining lift-ground, aquatint, and spit-bite. Either way, the title aligns with her explicit framing of intaglio as a medium for recording the body's past — the surgical scar from her childhood heart operation reproduced and elaborated through the controlled wounds of acid on copper. As with the rest of her work, the scale is small and demands proximity from the viewer.