The Banana Flower · TR-11
Artist's edition · M no. 102 of 150
Ledger no. TR-11 · Colour
The Banana Flower
A life bears fruit while it is still in bloom.
¥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 great dark leaf, shaped almost like a heart, sweeps across the frame. Above it rises the banana flower — deep pink, its petals only beginning to open — and just beneath the bloom, a small cluster of young fruit has already begun to form.
The eye goes to the colour first. That vivid pink against the dark green is hard to look away from. But what is quietly remarkable is the order of things. The flower has not yet finished blooming, and still the fruit has begun. Nothing here waits for the perfect moment. The leaf spreads, the flower opens, the fruit swells — all at once, each in its own time.
We often believe that one season of life must end before the next can begin; that we must finish becoming ourselves before we have anything to give. The banana does not seem to think so.
Perhaps a life bears fruit while it is still in bloom.
- 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: 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).