Radiant Altar (Hanayagi no Saidan) — exhibition graphic

The exhibition graphic for "Radiant Altar (Hanayagi no Saidan)" documents a 2025 mixed-media installation in which Shuji combined her four working disciplines — printmaking, painting, sculpture, and stained glass — into a single ceremonial assembly. The altar motif recurs across her recent practice as a frame for organizing fragmentary imagery into a unified devotional or commemorative object, drawing loosely on the visual vocabulary of Buddhist butsudan and Shinto shrine architecture without committing to a single religious idiom. "Hanayagi" — a term denoting brightness, festivity, and the bloom of color — points to the saturated palette and backlit color planes of her stained-glass passages, juxtaposed against the matte surfaces of printed and painted panels. As an exhibition graphic rather than a discrete edition, the image functions as a wayfinding and documentary artifact, condensing the spatial work into a flat, reproducible composition. It exemplifies Shuji's approach to printmaking not as an isolated discipline but as one register within a larger material vocabulary developed since her Kyoto graduate training, where she studied under faculty bridging traditional mokuhanga and contemporary practice.