Artwork copyright Yoshi Nakagawa. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, by Everything Time Studio, 2024.

Entre Naranjas, 2022

Yoshi Nakagawa
(American)

Location: Thomas Jefferson High School, Auburn

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Entre Naranjas by Yoshi Nakagawa is a linocut print with a poem by Bryce Lillmars. Nakagawa notes, “There is great beauty and simplicity in our everyday lives.”

Entre Naranjas by Bryce Lillmars

With every double koi

flickering in a pond

or every errant wind chime

tingling ancient scales

with every orange unalloyed

inside furnace-bright skin

you, alone and passing

through so quickly,

must be made alive again.

This artwork is part of a curated collection by Asia Tail in April 2024 for three Federal Way Public Schools in South King County. Asia chose graphic works that are as bold and diverse as the students, by artists with ties to South Puget Sound. Images of language, people, and the natural world create a poem for this place where students live and learn. She notes, "School is a place where we can connect with new families. And families are always strongest when working together."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Federal Way Public Schools.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Yoshi Nakagawa is a Tacoma-based visual artist, specializing in printmaking since 1999. She pulled her first print at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, and continued her craft in Seattle and Oaxaca, Mexico. Her art is influenced by patterns of the natural world and Japanese textiles, along with her experiences living in Oaxaca and Japan.