Details
The image
Two birds placed on a branch that enters from the left and stops before the right edge, so the composition leans rather than balances. The contour is even and the colour flat, and the paper between the figures is left completely empty.
Where it comes from
Woodblock printing in Japan divided the work between designer, cutter and printer, and the discipline of that collaboration is visible in every line: nothing is corrected, nothing is blended, nothing is added to fill a gap. The prints reached Europe in the nineteenth century and gave designers there a vocabulary of flat colour and empty space that they used against ornament for decades afterwards.
On the wall
It suits a study, a bedroom or a reading corner, where a quiet image with open space makes a room feel calmer. Because the line is fine and the palette limited, it needs daylight and a wall that is not busy. In a group it should be the lightest piece.
In company
If the wall is to hold another sheet, the rest of the Taguchi Tomoki collection follows the same rules.Two sheets side by side read as a pair; three turn the wall into a pattern.
