Sample lithograph 02 (still life or landscape)

The second sample carries the same dual title, indicating Tanaka's tendency to leave the boundary between still life and landscape porous. In her practice, a fragment of architectural view — a windowsill, a corner of wall, a section of floor — can carry the same compositional weight as a placed object, and the still-life tag here likely refers to this kind of interior-leaning fragment rather than a horizontal landscape. The lithograph is pulled from stone rather than zinc plate, which allows the broad granular texture characteristic of her surfaces: tonal areas built up through repeated crayon passes and softened with washes of tusche, registered in a limited grey palette. Tanaka's training is entirely Kyoto-based — undergraduate (1993), master's (1995), and doctoral coursework (2009) at KCUA — and her work belongs to the Kyoto lithographic lineage that has sustained the technique as a serious fine-art medium in Japan. The print's quiet, deliberately understated register is consistent with her output across the past two decades: a refusal of visual incident in favour of slow tonal observation.