Vestiges

"Vestiges" is a silkscreen on rubber whose title draws on the language of traces, residues, and what remains after a process has concluded. In Yoshioka's hands, this concept aligns with the indexical character of printmaking itself: every print is a vestige of the matrix, the screen, the ink, and the pressure of the squeegee. By printing on rubber rather than paper, he extends this thinking — the substrate retains pigment unevenly, accepting some passages while subtly resisting others, leaving a record of the printing event that paper would smooth over. The work belongs to a strand of Yoshioka's practice that uses unconventional grounds (rubber, limestone, photogrammetric data) to surface the residual physicality of the printed image. As Associate Professor at KCUA, Yoshioka has used such pieces to argue against the flatness of digital reproduction, reasserting the print as an object that carries the marks of its making rather than dissolving them into a finished surface.