Untitled (surreal structure)

Koichi Yamamoto

Koichi Yamamoto uses etching and color aquatint to create this organic image, an ancient stump that rises and grows into an intricate structure, an octagonal fortress of stone and a web-like "neural structure" moving through and around it.

The artist added a tonal aquatint to add a subtle, evolving color, somewhat like the Japanese woodblock printing method of 'bokashi', a variation in lightness and darkness (value) of color by hand applying a gradation of ink to a matrix.

This etching is dedicated "for Gordon", a gift to Portland, Oregon artist, and curator Gordon Gilkey. This impression was deaccessioned as a duplicate from the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphics Art Collection at the Portland Museum of Art, which has a collection of Yamamoto's work.