Jacob Hashimoto
The Inverted Lens, 2025
Woodblock
Fuji DHM-11 Kozo Misumi 536gsm, White
Fuji DHM-11 Kozo Misumi 536gsm, White
65 x 59 in
(165.1 x 149.9 cm)
(165.1 x 149.9 cm)
Edition of 15
Copyright The Artist/Durham Press
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Inverted Lens breaks new ground as Jacob Hashimoto's largest scale edition with Durham Press to date measuring at 65 x 60 inches (165.1 x 152.4 cm). Instead of floating across...
Inverted Lens breaks new ground as Jacob Hashimoto's largest scale edition with Durham Press to date measuring at 65 x 60 inches (165.1 x 152.4 cm).
Instead of floating across the horizontal compositions seen in his previous largest editions, Hashimoto’s patterned kites are now bound within the almost-square format of The Inverted Lens. Its kites feel contained on the page instead of floating through it as the print removes a sense of horizon, forcing a new directionality. As if released from the container of colorful rectangles above, the mass of kites pours with inertia and gravity, ricocheting off the edges of their bounding box until they find their way to the bottom – maybe the kites escape and falling beyond the page, or maybe they will continue to pour out until they fill this box to its limit.
Instead of floating across the horizontal compositions seen in his previous largest editions, Hashimoto’s patterned kites are now bound within the almost-square format of The Inverted Lens. Its kites feel contained on the page instead of floating through it as the print removes a sense of horizon, forcing a new directionality. As if released from the container of colorful rectangles above, the mass of kites pours with inertia and gravity, ricocheting off the edges of their bounding box until they find their way to the bottom – maybe the kites escape and falling beyond the page, or maybe they will continue to pour out until they fill this box to its limit.