Invitation to an Image by Mika Horibuchi

Invitation to an Image represents the anatomy of a drawing, containing the tools and components necessary for the creation of form or figure. Each edition, housed in a hand-made linen box, holds a unique marker drawing, three rubber stamps, a notebook, an ink pad, a graphite drawing tool, and a ceramic paper-crane posing as a brush rest. The drawing, rendered using markers in shades of grey, is displayed in the manner of a photograph, held with triangular photo corners and mounted to an adjustable display that unfolds from the interior of the box. Similar to her paintings in oil, each unique drawing imitates the same photograph of a watercolor of a landscape, as painted by her 84 year-old grandmother, Sayoko Yokoyama. Recreating the form and style of the original object it replaces, the drawings stand as distinct examinations in their continued imitation; what was meant to mimic becomes mimicked. The interior of the box contains tools of creation and replication. Specifically, the sta