Go Yayanagi’s 1976 silkscreen 鳥になった島 (The Island that Turned into a Bird) melds land and wing in a vibrant Pop-Uki dreamscape. Continental shapes - South America and Africa - delineate the composition, overlaid with layered bird profiles, zebra-stripe fragments, a coral-pink female torso and flitting butterfly. Fluid wave-line backgrounds and bold color planes unite animal, human and geographic forms in a playful allegory of transformation. 🦜🌎✨
- Year & Edition: 1976 · Artist Proof (E.A.) (signed & dated in pencil).
- Medium: Silkscreen.
- Dimensions: Sheet H: 60.30 cm × W: 45.10 cm.
- Condition: Excellent; colours remain intense, paper pristine - with only a slight mark on the torso as shown.
- Notes: Featured in Mary & Norman Tolman’s Collecting Modern Japanese Prints: Then & Now (pp. 174-75), this Artist Proof exemplifies Yayanagi’s signature fusion of female and animal imagery, zebra patterns and clear compositional shapes. A standout piece for collectors of modern Japanese printmaking. 👁️✨
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