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Fern-gm-1

2015, printed 2021
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(Japanese, 1946-)
Japan
intaglio, etching, aquatint and spitbite on Rives BFK paper; final print, BAT, and 3 color proofs
Platemark: 20.2 x 35.2 cm (7 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 49.7 x 66.2 cm (19 9/16 x 26 1/16 in.)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 2022.429
Location: not on view
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When making this print, the artist Seiko Tachibana was inspired by the repeating reproductive patterns of ferns.

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Tachibana’s work combines Asian tradition with a modernist aesthetic through the exploration of shape, color, and spatial relationships. One of her primary explorations is that of fractals, or repeated patterns, an interest that brought her to a series of works on the self-replicating patterns of ferns. Here, she reduces the language of the fern to the simplicity of a circle, creating patterns that increase and decrease, from miniscule circular voids to commanding dark spheres, opaque to transparent.
fern-gm-1

Fern-gm-1

2015, printed 2021

Seiko Tachibana

(Japanese, 1946-)
Japan

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