As part of the Taisho/Showa nostalgic theme for a larger collection of three screenprints, I created a print featuring Amano Tonbimaru, leader of Japanese underground band, Guruguru Eigakan. In 2005 I was influenced a lot by Guruguru. They had a phrase "eroguro innocence" perhaps as a counter to "eroguro grotesque" that emerged in 1920s Japan. Innocence as opposed to perversion. I would like to know what Amano himself means by "eroguro innocence." If I have a chance to attend an instore, instead of telling him that I like his music, this is the thing that I will ask him if I could muster the courage. The image used in this print was from a penci sketch. I touched up the artwork on the computer. I think the one point I like about screenprints is that I can create the master using the computer which allows me to create detailed collages which I find easier to do digitally than manually.

I created a small box. They were difficult to produce because of the size of the box and the detail of the print. I wanted to use gold in the black ink originally to make it sparkle, but the gold ink didn't hold very well and smeared very easily. So, unfortunately only one box out of the two I made came out well. Unlike most of the other screenprints I made thus far, this is the only one in which there is no paper version.

I created an even larger version of the print on an actual box of a package that was sent to me from Japan. I receive a lot of pacakges in the mail. I always find a certain kind of beautiful with the packages, especially those sent by airmail. The way that the addresses are placed as well as the customs form and the postage can be quite beautiful in a sense of presenting order. The box was used to house the prints and boxes created as part of the series.

This was a color variation I had tried out on the computer. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to try it out on an actual screenprint yet. Maybe sometime soon. It feels calmer than the yellow and green combination which is very energetic.