Inside the collection: Block & Pigment

Hand-registered woodblock pulls alongside pigment editions of the same subjects — printmaking in two techniques, side by side. All 3 pieces come from Rei Nakamura's studio, released together rather than as a scattered set of one-offs.

The throughline

Provenance matters more the further a work travels from its original studio — a documented chain of ownership is what turns 'I was told this is authentic' into something a future buyer, insurer or appraiser can actually verify.

Insuring a home collection is worth doing before, not after, the first piece worth insuring arrives — most standard homeowner policies cap fine-art coverage well below what a modest collection is actually worth within a couple of years of active buying.

Where to start looking

Reworking a passage eleven times before it feels resolved isn't indecision, it's usually the sign of an artist who can tell the difference between 'finished' and 'correct' and refuses to settle for the former until the latter shows up.

Numbering a hand-pulled edition sequentially as it sells, rather than all at once before release, is a small but meaningful choice — it means the number on a print reflects the actual order collectors bought it, not an arbitrary assignment.

"Break" is the clearest entry point into the "Block & Pigment" collection — from there, the rest of the sequence reads less like separate purchases and more like chapters of the same idea.