What the Leaves Keep · TR-17
Artist's edition · XL no. 3 of 50
Ledger no. TR-17 · Colour
What the Leaves Keep
The fruit sits low; the leaves close around it.
¥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
Three large leaves open wide, low to the ground, and in the hollow they make between them a single green fruit sits quietly.
At first glance it could be mistaken for a flower — three dark petals and a pale centre. But look again, and it is something else entirely. The leaves are not reaching for the light. They are bending down, spreading themselves over the earth, as though their whole purpose were to shelter the small thing at their heart. The fruit does not need to do anything. It is simply kept.
Perhaps this is what it is to be loved when we are small: to be held without being asked why, covered by leaves that never ask to be thanked. And one day, perhaps, to grow broad enough to do the same for someone else.
Some strength is not in standing tall, but in bending low enough to protect.
- 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).
Photographs of the actual test prints
