In The Woodland

In The Woodland situates Tamekane's hybrid technique within the natural world, producing a print that reads as both an evocation of forest experience and an exploration of organic surface. The collagraph matrix here likely mimics the textures encountered in woodland — bark fissures, leaf-mold, root structures — translated into a printable relief that transfers these qualities to washi. Multiple woodblock layers build up the chromatic depth associated with dense tree canopy: filtered light, overlapping greens and browns, sudden clearings of brightness. Metallic leaf functions as incident light breaking through the canopy, or as the sheen of water on forest undergrowth. The combination of subjects listed — nature and abstract — accurately describes the work's dual register: it is simultaneously a record of natural observation and an entirely autonomous surface event.