Image

"Image" is a silkscreen on rubber whose self-naming title declares the work's subject as the very category to which it belongs. By titling a printed object "Image," Yoshioka stages a small tautology that asks the viewer to attend to the conditions under which a surface becomes a picture. Rubber, the chosen substrate, refuses the conventions of the print: it does not accept ink the way paper does, and its slight sheen and softness keep the eye registering the ground as much as the marks upon it. This treatment is characteristic of Yoshioka's broader position. His practice — including photogrammetric prints, layered installations, and laser-engraved limestone — is sustained by a critique of the "flat view of things" he associates with digital image culture. "Image" performs that critique compactly: a printed picture made deliberately resistant to the smooth, untextured viewing that screens habituate.