BIJING NOW 03

A close-cropped, monochrome image of a woman's head and shoulders seen from below, her lips and chin visible at upper right while the rest of her face is cut off by the frame, one hand raised near her collar. Her hair, collar, and the surrounding ground are rendered as dense mosaics of small repeating patterns—dots, grids, stripes, and tiny pictogram-like icons—in black, white, and shades of grey. "BIJING NOW 03," a 2016 work by Toru Ishii in Digital Dyeing on Silk, built from these fragmented textile-like patterns rather than continuous tone or line.