Missing Time (Time Falling - S) by Michiko Hoshino

Missing Time (Time Falling - S) by Michiko Hoshino

Missing Time (Time Falling - S)

Michiko Hoshino

Title

Missing Time (Time Falling - S)

 
Artist

Michiko Hoshino

  1934 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1979  
Technique
zinc plate lithograph 
Image Size
14 x 9 1/2" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
artist's proof outside the edition of 30 
Annotations
dated, titled (also in Japanese) and annotated "A.P" 
Reference
Abe 146, illustrated, page 60 
Paper
sturdy ivory wove 
State
Proof 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
15845 
Price
SOLD
Description

A warped figure and a pale visage emerge from shadow, encapsulated by the arc of a watchface in Michiko Hoshino’s “Missing Time”, published as "Time Falling - S". In her ongoing homage to writer Jorge Luis Borges, Hoshino addresses the duality of dreams and time, referencing, perhaps, Borges’ assertion that time itself does not exist but is, in fact, an individual person’s experience. This image is from the series of 12 lithographs titled "Time Series".

Hoshino’s use of lithography in itself lends more weight to the experience of the piece, as the viewer contemplates the time-consuming, physical effort of rendering the image onto the zinc matrix and printing it onto the sheet.

Hoshino focused almost primarily on lithography from the late 1960s until the early 2000s, traveling to Argentina, New York, and to Canada to further her studies in the technique. As well, her main theme was the writings of Borges as well as his person, creating several portraits and figurative works of the writer in the same Surrealist style as her non-figurative prints.