Source

Source, a woodblock print on paper from the 1980s, points toward origin and beginning. Shinoda's abstract forms on this print suggest emergence, shapes that appear to be rising or issuing from a central point on the composition. The sumi ink is applied with the directness that decades of calligraphic practice made second nature. By her seventies, Shinoda had spent more time with ink and paper than most artists spend with any medium, and that long familiarity shows in the economy of means. Nothing extra appears on the surface; every mark serves the whole.