Moon Coloring 1

Moon Coloring 1 inaugurates a series examining how moonlight transforms the color of the world it falls on. This first print likely establishes the compositional and chromatic logic that subsequent works in the series develop: a landscape — perhaps hills, fields, or water — bathed in cool lunar light that shifts the local colors of the scene toward blue-white and silver. Hasegawa's multilayer printing technique is particularly suited to this inquiry, as successive applications of pale ink on washi can build the quality of diffused nocturnal light with greater subtlety than a single print pass allows. The series title is itself an observation about printmaking: color in a woodblock print is never fixed but results from the interaction of ink, paper, and layering sequence — the moon colors the landscape in the same way the printmaker colors the block.