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Jam-packed Sushi by Shoji Miyamoto — Japanese Water-based woodcut on Japanese paper, 2012

Jam-packed Sushi

by Shoji Miyamoto

Date:
2012
Medium:
Water-based woodcut on Japanese paper
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

A tightly packed grid of identical, rounded pink-magenta shapes—each shaded with a soft gray gradient along one edge to suggest volume—repeats in overlapping horizontal rows across a plain off-white ground. The abstract, uniform forms and dense, rhythmic tiling create a pattern-like effect rather than a pictorial scene, with no setting or figures depicted. *Jam-packed Sushi*, a 2012 water-based woodcut on Japanese paper by Shoji Miyamoto, renders its titular subject entirely through this repeated abstracted shape and color.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Jam-packed Sushi was created by Shoji Miyamoto (宮本承司) in 2012.

Jam-packed Sushi depicts food & drink.