Three Stages of My Life

An autobiographical work organized around a tripartite division — likely three vertical panels, three zones within a single sheet, or three discrete prints intended to be read as a sequence. The structure invites associations with the traditional Japanese sense of time as marked by stages (jo-ha-kyū in performance arts, the three phases of natural cycles), here applied to the artist's own biography. Mokuhanga's compatibility with sequential and serial imagery — through consistent block carving and predictable color registration — supports such structured reflection. Without representational specifics, the print likely uses changes in tonality, density, or compositional rhythm across its three sections to evoke the differing character of successive life phases. The work positions Shiomi's abstract idiom in service of a personal narrative, demonstrating how the medium's formal possibilities can carry intimate content beyond the landscape and natural-phenomenon subjects that more typically anchor her practice.