Quaker's Meeting

This woodblock print, dated circa 1967, is another variation on the Quaker meeting theme, cataloged with slightly different punctuation in its title. The existence of multiple versions, each with subtle differences in title and presumably in composition, indicates that Matsubara treated the Quaker meeting as a subject worthy of serial exploration rather than single depiction. Each version likely emphasizes different aspects of the meeting experience: the arrangement of seated figures, the quality of light in the unadorned room, the geometric simplicity of Quaker architecture. The circa 1967 dating aligns with the other Quaker meeting prints, placing them all within the same period of focused attention. Together, these prints form a meditation on collective silence rendered through the solitary, labor-intensive process of woodblock carving and printing.