Endless Trip II

The second print in the Endless Trip series deepens Tamekane's investigation of journeying as a state rather than a directed movement toward a destination. The serial structure mirrors the subject: like a long journey, the series itself has no predetermined terminus. The collagraph matrix generates a continuously varied surface without compositional anchor, implying lateral, unresolved movement across the picture plane. Metallic leaf appears at intervals that might be read as landmarks, transitions, or simply the accidents of attention that punctuate extended travel. Tamekane's own peripatetic biography — Hyogo, Tokyo, Paris, back to Japan — lends autobiographical resonance to the title. The washi support, receptive and fibrous, absorbs the impression of the journey's residue without claiming to contain the journey itself.