Print 32-1 (Hundred Layers of Color)

Print 32-1 is part of Kouseki Ono's Hundred Layers of Color cycle, executed by passing the same diamond-patterned silkscreen over a single sheet of paper sixty to one hundred times, each pass laid down in a fresh ink color. The 32-1 number marks its position partway through the numbered sequence and identifies it as the first palette variant of the thirty-second composition, allowing Ono to test how shifts in color order change the optical behavior of an otherwise identical mark structure. The accumulated ink stands five to six millimetres above the [washi](/glossary/washi), so the diamond grid functions less as printed image than as a topography of microscopic painted columns. Because each column reads as the sum of every color in its stack, the overall field shifts perceptibly with viewing angle and ambient light. Within Ono's wider practice, the 1 suffix marks works in which he isolates a single chromatic strategy — for instance a tightly keyed warm range or a cool-into-neutral progression — to study how layer order, rather than hue selection alone, governs the final surface.