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ArtistFull-screen, complete width, broad, 16:9 format of a delicate linocut with bokeh edges, rich colors, executed on rough handmade paper of poem number 53, Udaishō Michitsuna no Haha, of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu: "Lying all alone, / Through the hours of the night, / Till the daylight comes: / Can you realize at all / The emptiness of that night?" The image shows a lonely, contemporary Japanese woman dressed in a silk bathrobe she is hugging tightly around her. She is standing at the window of her apartment, looking out into the gloomy night sky, her back to us. She is in her bedroom, wainting for daybreak. She reflects on her emotional pain, frustration and loneliness. Her husband is spending time with his mistress and has abandoned his wife to solitude and melancholy. The nighttime sky is overcast, and the entire image seems steeped in darkness, except for a dim night light located outside the image on the right-hand side. The dim light strikes the woman's silhouette from the right, so that the pattern of her silk bathrobe and her messily arranged hairdo become visible, and casts faint shadows that put the left side of the image into complete darkness. The colors range from faint yellow to deep, velvety black, with a range of blues and grays in between. The image is rendered as an exceedingly detailed, highly symbolic, large, zentangle-like woodcut with enormous detail. Clarity of rendering, timeless, symbolical motif combining a traditional woodcut with a contemporary zentangle esthetic. Masterful technique. Exquisite Japanese folio.
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