Diary: April 24th '97

A late-April 1997 screenprint, this Diary entry records a spring day using pure silkscreen technique rather than the woodcut-silkscreen hybrid Noda often favored. Screenprinting alone produces flatter, more uniformly toned surfaces, giving the image a quality closer to mechanical reproduction than handcraft. The April date suggests a scene colored by spring weather — blooming trees, longer days, the transitional warmth between winter and the approaching rainy season. By 1997, Noda had been creating Diary prints for nearly three decades, and each new entry both stood alone and belonged to a vast, accumulating visual calendar.