a moment-25-1

Marked as the first print in the 2025 sequence of Suzuki's "a moment" series, this lithograph extends a project the artist has been pursuing for at least a decade by the time of its production. The numbering — "25-1" — places it at the start of the year's output rather than within a fixed edition, consistent with the diaristic structure of the series, in which each print records a distinct garment from her hand-sewn wardrobe. Compared with the 2015 prints in the same series, a 2025 work sits within Suzuki's mature practice, where the integration of dressmaking, drawing, and lithography has been refined over many years. The medium remains central to the image's logic: Suzuki draws the garment directly onto the stone or plate using crayon and tusche, building up the cloth's weight and the surrounding negative space through layered tonal passages rather than outline. The composition is likely to isolate a single garment against an open white field, a structure Suzuki has used consistently to frame the pause in which a piece of cloth is simply looked at.