Trying Not to Fall Into the Hole of Emptiness

Trying Not to Fall Into the Hole of Emptiness pairs Osaka's introspective titling with imagery that the autumn-foliage tag indicates includes seasonal botanical motifs. The print likely places a female figure among or against patterned leaves, rendered through layered lithographic stones in muted oranges, ochres, and browns. Osaka treats foliage in the same descriptive register as printed textiles, flattening leaves into decorative pattern that competes with — rather than recedes behind — the figure. The title's vocabulary of holes and emptiness aligns with a strain in her work where pictorial space contains literal voids: open doorways, mirrors, dark windows, or unfilled passages of paper. These pictorial absences function as analogues for the psychological state named in the title. The print belongs to a body of work in which Osaka uses the structure of the season — its pull toward decay and interiority — as a frame for examining the daily mechanics of avoiding despair.