Tradescantia & Celadon · TR-33
Artist's edition · M no. 1 of 80
Ledger no. TR-33 · Colour
Tradescantia & Celadon
Small blue, floating.
¥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
Four sprigs of violet tradescantia hang in the air around a pale celadon-green vase. Only one of them touches it. The others float free, their long thin leaves drawn out like strokes of a brush.
At first it looks like an arrangement that has come apart — flowers that should be in the vase and somehow are not. But look again. Nothing is falling. Each stem has found its own place in the air, and the vase stands among them the way a quiet person stands in a crowded room: holding no one, and yet somehow at the centre of it all.
A tradescantia flower lasts a single day. It opens in the morning and closes by evening, and the plant simply opens another. There is no grief in it — only the next small blue flower.
We spend so much effort trying to keep everything inside the vessel: our plans, our people, our days. Perhaps some things are most beautiful when we let them float a little way off, still near enough to be ours.
Perhaps not everything we love needs to be held.
- Sheet
- 420 × 594 mm
- Image area
- 267 × 339.4 mm
- Margins
- sides 30 mm · top 109.8 mm · bottom 144.8 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).