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My Itinerary II by Yoshikatsu Tamekane — Japanese Woodblock print with collagraph and metallic leaf

My Itinerary II

by Yoshikatsu Tamekane

Medium:
Woodblock print with collagraph and metallic leaf
Image courtesy of
Verne Gallery

Description

My Itinerary II belongs to the tradition of the artist's record — a private mapping of routes, stops, and encounters rendered in terms that are meaningful to the traveler alone. The series title claims personal specificity that the abstract visual field withholds from the viewer, creating a productive tension between intimacy and opacity. The collagraph surface encodes the texture of surfaces encountered: cobblestones, hotel walls, the particular grain of train seats worn smooth. Metallic leaf marks points of heightened attention — a remarkable vista, a shift in weather, a threshold crossing — without identifying them. Tamekane's French sojourn and subsequent practice across international exhibition circuits have generated a genuinely international itinerary, and this print seems to register those accumulated distances in its layered, multi-pass construction on washi.

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My Itinerary II was created by Yoshikatsu Tamekane (為金義勝).

My Itinerary II depicts abstract.