Hitori dake no ongakkai, C (Concert of One, C)

Concert of One (Hitori dake no ongakkai), version C, dates from 1967 and translates the experience of solitary music-making or music-listening into Iwami's visual vocabulary of abstract woodblock printing. The title's reference to a concert performed for or by a single person evokes intimacy and private absorption, qualities that Iwami pursued in her art through compositions that invite prolonged, meditative looking. The "C" variant suggests a series exploring different aspects of this solo musical experience, perhaps varying in tempo, volume, or emotional register as translated into visual terms. Created during the period when Iwami was establishing her mature style, this print occupies a transitional moment between her earlier figurative tendencies and the fully abstract seascape and water imagery that would define her later decades.