Poème No. 7 (?10): Nihil

"Poème No. 7 (?10): Nihil" addresses nothingness — philosophical emptiness, the void, the experience of nothing-as-subject — through the medium of a print that, paradoxically, must use visual form to represent the absence of form. Onchi's "Nihil" print engages the Zen Buddhist and Western nihilist traditions of taking nothingness seriously as a subject, using composition to evoke absence through the character of presence. The uncertainty in the numbering (?10) suggests some complexity in the series' documentation.