Cho - from the "Voices and Visions" Fort Mason Printmakers portfolio

Kumiko Tanaka

From the portfolio of 22 etchings by 22 artists, titled "Voice and Visions: A Book of Poems and Etchings." Printed by the Fort Mason Printmakers in San Francisco under the direction of Eleanor Rappe, each work was inspired by a poem of the artist's choice, corresponding to their assigned category: Part I, Of Love and Loss; Part II, Upon the Earth; Part III, Under the Heavens; Part IV, Journeys of the Mind; and Part V, Metamorphoses.

This print is from the fourth category: Journeys of the Mind. Its corresponding poem was "Invaluable Chieko" by Kotaro Takamura:

Chieko sees what one cannot see, / hears what one cannot hear. / Chieko goes where one cannot go, / does what one cannot do. / Chieko has cast off the weight of suffering, / has strayed out to the endless, desolate zone of beauty. / I persistently hear her call to me, but / Chieko no longer has a ticket to the human world.