Left Hand takes the human body as a conceptual anchor for an otherwise abstract printmaking investigation. In Japanese Buddhist iconography, the left hand carries specific doctrinal associations — it often holds a lotus or symbolic object in mudra configurations — but Nakazawa's approach, filtered through copperplate etching, is more likely phenomenological than iconographic. The print may incorporate the actual contour or pressure trace of the artist's left hand transferred into the etched surface, or it may render the hand's mark obliquely through calligraphic gesture executed with the non-dominant hand. Metal leaf applied over the intaglio field introduces the same reflective quality found throughout Nakazawa's series work, here perhaps suggesting the skin's own capacity to catch and return light. The singular title, unaccompanied by a series numeral, implies this image occupies an independent place within the body of work.
Left Hand was created by Shinichi Nakazawa (中澤慎一).
Left Hand uses Etching, on etching with metal leaf.
Left Hand depicts calligraphy and abstract.
