Eternal Gaze Right - Mountains

The right panel of the [diptych](/glossary/diptych) pairs with "Eternal Gaze Left - Waves" to complete a meditation on opposing natural forms. Mountains here appear as solid mass rather than the receding planes of traditional landscape prints, likely rendered through stacked, sculptural blocks of color — a treatment that depends on the carved relief of multiple woodblocks and registered overprinting to build density. Where the wave panel offers continuous flow, the mountain panel asserts geological permanence; together they invoke the yin-yang structure central to East Asian aesthetics. Shiomi's mokuhanga technique here would lean on the grain of the carved wood itself, allowing the natural texture of the block to read through the printed image — a feature specific to woodblock and visible in the way pigment settles into and around the wood's fibers. The diptych positions Shiomi within a contemporary lineage of mokuhanga artists who use the medium's traditional materials to pursue abstract rather than representational ends.