For Thee

A companion or earlier iteration of the Donne-derived title, this print continues Shinoda's practice of returning to particular phrases as recurring formal armatures. The composition likely consists of a restrained arrangement of sumi strokes — a single concentrated cluster, or two or three weighted marks held in tense relation across the sheet — pulled as mokuhanga from carved blocks. The medium would register her gesture through layered impressions of densely absorbed ink against the porous fiber of washi, with edges carrying the diffuse softness particular to woodblock printing. Shinoda treated language as a generative source rather than a caption: the title points to Donne's meditation on shared mortality, but the visual content remains abstract, asking the viewer to find correspondence rather than illustration. The print reflects her self-defined position within the sosaku-hanga ethos of individual artistic conception, where the artist controls design, carving direction, and printing decisions as a unified expressive act.