Things Suspended in the Sky 1914

Koshiro Onchi made this print called "Things Suspended in the Sky," and I can only imagine what those things are! The inky black covers most of the surface, interrupted by these sharp, diagonal lines, like rain. To the left, there's this patch of bright blue, kind of like a memory of the sky peeking through. Then there is this ghostly white shape, something like a cloud, or maybe it's just the absence of everything else? I wonder what Onchi was thinking about when he made this? Maybe he was trying to capture a fleeting feeling. I can see him, carefully carving the woodblock, each mark a decision, each color a layer of feeling. There's something mysterious here, an ongoing conversation between the artist, the materials, and us, the viewers. It's like he's inviting us to fill in the blanks, to bring our own skies and suspended things into the mix.