Calla 6

Calla 6 places the flower in a more upright posture, the stem rising from the lower edge of the sheet and the spathe opening at roughly its midpoint. The print preserves the technical signature of Tokitoh's mature work: a hand-drawn screen rather than a photographic stencil, and an editioning process in which each sheet receives close to ten passes of the squeegee. The accumulated translucent layers produce a quiet depth in the body of the spathe, where pale green and grey settle into one another without a hard transition. There is no contour line in the conventional sense; the form is described entirely by the meeting of tonal fields. As the sixth numbered print in the calla series, the work sits within a sustained body of single-flower compositions in which the artist returns repeatedly to the same motif, treating each revisit as a fresh observation. The flower is given the entire sheet; nothing else competes with it.