Afternoon on the Horizon (ed. 19/50)

Created in 1978 as edition number 19 of 50, Afternoon on the Horizon is a large-format woodblock print that distills the experience of gazing across open water toward the line where sea and sky converge. Iwami, one of the foremost sosaku-hanga artists of the postwar period, built her practice around the boundary between water and air, treating the horizon as both a physical phenomenon and a metaphysical threshold. The afternoon light, warmer and more oblique than the flat illumination of midday, creates specific color relationships between water surface and sky that Iwami translates into layered woodblock impressions. The limited edition of 50 reflects the sosaku-hanga practice of hand-printing each impression individually, with subtle variations between copies that give each print a unique character within the edition.