Seabathing

A 1970 woodblock print in ink and color on paper capturing the sensory experience of bathing in the ocean. Takahashi renders the meeting of human body and seawater with attention to the enveloping quality of immersion, the way salt water holds and moves the swimmer. The print likely conveys the physical sensation of sea bathing through fluid compositional forms and the interplay of skin tones with oceanic blues and greens. The subject combines figure and landscape in a single moment of bodily engagement with the natural world. Created in 1970, the print belongs to a period when Takahashi was producing works on paper that balanced figurative reference with increasing formal abstraction, using recognizable subjects as starting points for explorations of color and form.