Gathering

Gathered, and held.

Working title — for the artist's review

¥48,000approx. $305 · €266

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.

Sizes

S297 × 420 mm¥27,00050 remaining · Edition 50M364 × 515 mm¥30,00049 remaining · Edition 150L420 × 594 mm¥44,00050 remaining · Edition 50XL18 × 24 in¥58,00039 remaining · Edition 100

30mm side margins · Balanced artist presentation top and bottom, with generous lower space reserved for signature and edition number

Each print is centred on the sheet with a fixed side margin, and a deeper lower margin reserved for the signature and edition number. M and XL match the two sizes the artist printed himself and continue his original edition numbers; S and L are new editions of 50 beginning at no. 1.

Paper

Canson Edition Etching RagMatte · 310 gsm · Medium-rough · WhiteHahnemühle German EtchingMatte · 310 gsm · Medium-rough · WhiteTakeo KakitaMatte · 300 gsm · Smooth · Warm White

Three standard papers are offered on every print. Two more are available on request. Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth · Hahnemühle Torchon.

Signature

Hand-signed by the artist+ ¥4,000 · adds about one weekUnsignedFacsimile-free, certificate included

Sheet: 420 × 594 mm
Image area: 311.5 × 396.1 mm
Margins: sides 30 mm · top 81.4 mm · bottom 116.5 mm

Next number to be issued: 1 / 50

Story

Example text written by the studio, for the artist's review.

Nine papayas, still green, crowd the top of a plain white column as if they had climbed there together. Above them, on a thin stem, a few leaves open like a small flag. Nothing in the frame explains how the fruit is held; it simply is.

What reads at first as abundance settles, on a longer look, into something closer to company. Each fruit presses lightly against the next. None is the largest by much; none is hidden. The column beneath them carries the whole weight without comment, the way a table carries a family.

Ripeness is not yet here. That, perhaps, is the point. The gathering comes first — the leaning in, the shared waiting — and the sweetness, if it arrives, arrives to all of them at once.

Details

Medium: Archival pigment print (giclée)
Paper: Canson Edition Etching Rag · Hahnemühle German Etching · Takeo Kakita
Edition: S: 50 · M: 150 (C/S) · L: 50 · XL: 100 (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).