Along the Leaf · TR-14
Artist's edition · M no. 1 of 80
Ledger no. TR-14 · Colour
Along the Leaf
One leaf, and what it carries.
¥43,000approx. $271 · €243
L · 420 × 594 mm · Canson Edition Etching Rag · Hand-signed by the artist
Charged in Japanese yen. Other currencies are estimates at today's rate.
Edition pricing: each edition's price rises 7% after every 10 prints sold, so earlier numbers cost less.
Story
A single leaf stands upright against a pale olive ground — broad, dark green, glossy, with one clean line running down its centre. Along its upper edge lies a spray of shell ginger, its buds packed close together like a string of small porcelain shells, each one tipped with pink.
The eye goes to the ginger. It is the pretty thing: soft and pale, the pink only at the very tips of the buds, as if they had been dipped in colour. The leaf is plain beside it. It does not curl or lean to make itself more interesting.
But without the leaf there would be no picture. The flowers would simply hang in the air. The leaf is what gives them somewhere to rest, and a dark ground against which the pink can be seen at all.
Most of what holds us up is like this: the steady work, the friend who is always there, the ordinary days that give the remarkable ones somewhere to land. It is not the part anyone photographs.
Perhaps being the leaf is its own kind of beauty.
- Sheet
- 420 × 594 mm
- Image area
- 311.5 × 396 mm
- Margins
- sides 30 mm · top 81.5 mm · bottom 116.5 mm
Details
- Medium
- Archival pigment print (giclée)
- Paper
- Canson Edition Etching Rag · Hahnemühle German Etching / Photo Rag · Takeo Kakita
- Edition
- S: 50 · M: 80 (C/S) · L: 50 · XL: 50 (C/L)Numbers already sold in the artist's original edition are recorded in the ledger and never reissued.
- Certificate of authenticity
- Included with every print, bilingual, numbered
- Shipping
- Domestic about 7 days (10–14 days signed). International about 2 weeks (2–3 weeks signed).