Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2004
Edition: of 41

Poem: A moving seed cannot sprout. Stay calm.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 x 24 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 30

Poem: The forecast called for snow. The sky is clear. The two originally had nothing to do with each other.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 20 1/2 x 24 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 1997
Edition: of 28

Poem: You cannot take stones from the support of the upper ones. If you miss one you miss all.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 41

Poem: Dear! Do you hear the birds chirping? The chirping you hand over to me!

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 24 x 15 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 24

Poem: Oh you, the seeker of the Way, are you still living at that address? Why don't you move out of there for your own life?

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 14 x 24 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2005
Edition: of 40

Poem: The house looks like a mountain. The sun rises like a friend. You are already bright. When I become bright, we will be birds of a feather.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 21 x 24 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 40

Poem: On the water a ship was returning, after sailing in the wide open space, to a small house.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 31 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 33

Poem: After rain. Everything looks clear. The dog is barking at the cat. It must be a good day.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 30 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2002
Edition: of 40

Poem: I used to think the tall trees on a high mountain were the highest.  And now I see a small bird flying in the sky over the mountain.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 1998
Edition: of 22

Poem: A clear day.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2009
Edition: of 30

Poem: I hear you are reading. Nothing is better than studying. But some books are too big to bring into the room. I just dropped by since the flowers were so beautiful today.

Medium: Etching, collagraph, relief, chine-collé
Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1967
Date finished: 1998
Edition: of 30

Recommended by Nikki (Fine Print Photographer & Content Publisher):

"Collagraph is a medium that became popular in the ‘60s after synthetic adhesives and plastics became more readily available. Artists from all over the world were invited to visit the studio of Glen Alps in Seattle, WA to try out the process of gluing substrates, scribing marks into the dried substrates, and printing the results as intaglio plates. This relatively new medium has continued its popularity  in the studios of contemporary artists, like Akiko Taniguchi. In ‘Atom’, Taniguchi is using texture and layering on her collagraph to pull the viewer into her 10x8 inch world of abstraction. In it, viewers get to explore the word ‘atom’ within complimentary red and green hues and explosive almond shapes. Every square inch of the print is delightfully filled with new and interesting textures that only collagraph can offer."