Sono Mukou (The Far Side)

Sono mukou — literally "that beyond," the side over there — names a subject of distance and threshold rather than of any specific scene, and Ogawa's 2013 print holds the title's spatial ambiguity in chromatic rather than perspectival terms. Pulled from a single intaglio plate inked with multiple viscosities, the image would have been built from etched line, aquatint tonal field, and surface roll-up so that a sense of "beyond" emerges from the layering of color weights rather than from any drawn horizon. The mid-2010s mark a consolidation in Ogawa's work, with several prints from 2013 — including Yoru to Yoru wo Tsunagu and Meguru Tsuki — sharing a vocabulary of nocturnal or indeterminate light. Sono Mukou sits within this group as a study of the threshold itself, the line between here and there carried as a chromatic transition across the woven surface that her viscosity method, pressed once through the plate, allows her to assemble.