Floating World, Sally Frerichs Piller

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Sally Frerichs Piller, Floating World
Sally Frerichs Piller, Floating World
Sally Frerichs Piller
Floating World
1991
Sally Frerichs Piller, artist
1955–2015
Floating World, 1991
Where object was made: Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Material/technique: laid paper; color woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 610 x 615 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 643 x 770 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 24 1/2 x 24 3/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 5/16 x 30 5/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 30 x 36 in
Credit line: Gift of the artist
Accession number: 1999.0297
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Inspired by Japan," Mar-2003, Cori Sherman Lawrence artist Sally Piller uses some of the traditional Japanese techniques of printmaking in this tribute to ukiyoe, or “pictures of the floating world.” Her print is composed in a diptych format commonly used for Japanese prints, but it is printed on a single large sheet rather than as two separate impressions on smaller papers. Piller’s colors are also not the translucent, water-based inks generally seen in antique Japanese woodcuts, but bold, glittering, oil-based pigments that shine like polished lacquer. The subject matter of origami cranes, symbols of long life and granted wishes, in a plethora of paper patterns is reminiscent of a bevy of Edo-era pleasure quarter courtesans in their dazzling array of textile layers.