Kongamaluno 1962

Hiroyuki Tajima made "Kongamaluno" with what looks like a printmaking technique, resulting in an intense and meditative blue field. You know, sometimes artmaking feels like staring into the abyss of a single colour, trying to find some kind of visual logic. The texture here is really interesting, it’s not just a flat blue, but layered, you can almost feel the grain of the woodblock. In the centre there’s a subtle square, a little lighter, like a window. And then those tiny shimmering dots, like stars or maybe tears? That central square, it's imperfect, almost like it was wiped away, revealing a deeper blue underneath, this makes me think about the act of revealing and concealing that’s present in artmaking. Agnes Martin worked with grids, subtly drawn lines, maybe there's a connection there, a minimalist sensibility with a focus on the hand and the process. Ultimately, it is that openness to interpretation, that refusal to be pinned down, that makes art so endlessly fascinating.