Bud & Stoneware · TR-38
Artist's edition · XL no. 3 of 30
Ledger no. TR-38 · Monochrome
Bud & Stoneware
A bud, leaning out of the grey.
¥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 tall grey stoneware vessel, its surface ringed with the faint lines of the potter's wheel. From its narrow mouth a single dark stem leans out and up, and at the end of it hangs a lotus bud, nearly black, with one tiny white star-shaped flower resting against its side.
In black and white, the vessel is the largest thing in the picture, and the quietest. The eye goes past it to the dark shape above — heavy, closed, bending the stem with its weight. But what holds the eye is not the bud at all. It is that small white star, so bright against the dark that it seems to be the only light in the room.
We tend to think of a closed bud as something that has not happened yet: a life still waiting to begin. But this bud is already carrying something. It has not opened, and still it has a flower to hold up.
Perhaps we do not have to be in full bloom before we can give someone a little light.
- 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: 50 (B&W/S) · L: 50 · XL: 30 (B&W/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).