Lyrical C

Lyrical C belongs to a recurring set of titles in which Shinoda named compositions with a single letter or musical reference, suggesting a sustained engagement with the relationship between mark-making and sound. The C likely refers either to a curved form within the composition or to a tonal designation borrowed from music, which Shinoda often invoked as a parallel for the rhythm of her brushwork. The print would foreground a single broad calligraphic gesture — the curve or arc that defines the work's structural logic — supported by smaller marks that punctuate rather than crowd it. Shinoda's prints emerged from preparatory ink work on washi, with carvers translating the directionality and speed of the original strokes into the woodblock surface. Within her practice, the Lyrical series sits in the same territory as compositions named for poetry, music, and meditation — abstract works that ask the viewer to read them in time rather than space.