Mitsuaki Sora's colorful woodblock prints translate the smooth, rounded forms of his stone sculptures into two-dimensional compositions where vivid hues— applied only within abstract shapes-stand against plain white backgrounds with striking clarity and contrast. Born in Hiroshima in 1933 and trained at Tama College of Fine Arts, Sora began exploring printmaking in the 1960s as a parallel pursuit to his primary career as a sculptor, bringing the same precision and spatial balance to both disciplines while working within traditional Japanese woodblock techniques. His prints, produced in small editions of around 100 impressions and represented by respected Tokyo institutions like Yoseido Gallery and the Tolman Collection, feature circular and puzzle-like geometric forms that echo his three-dimensional work, establishing a distinctive visual language within contemporary Japanese printmaking. The careful registration of each carved block builds layers of pigment-often reds, blues, yellows, and greens-that interlock and overlap to create rhythmic patterns suggesting both organic growth and mathematical order. These prints invite you to trace how Sora's sculptural sensibility informs his approach to the flat plane, and to discover how his structured, geometric style transforms the ancient medium of woodblock printing into a vehicle for exploring the relationship between form, color, and negative space with contemporary abstraction's clean lines and bold chromatic choices.