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Two Sights II by Yoshikatsu Tamekane — Japanese Woodblock print with collagraph and metallic leaf

Two Sights II

by Yoshikatsu Tamekane

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

Description

Two Sights II implies a compositional structure organized around duality — two perspectives, two memory fragments, two landscapes glimpsed in sequence or simultaneously. Tamekane may divide the picture plane explicitly, or the duality may operate more subtly through contrasting textures or chromatic registers within a unified field. The collagraph surfaces of each zone would carry distinct material histories, pressing into the washi with differentiated densities and profiles. Metallic leaf appears in patterns that either mirror across the implicit divide or diverge from it, depending on whether the two sights converge or remain separate. As the second work in this series, the print suggests Tamekane continuing to test how visual memory of distinct experiences can coexist within a single printed surface — layered, not resolved.

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Two Sights II was created by Yoshikatsu Tamekane (為金義勝).

Two Sights II depicts abstract.