A collotype portfolio containing six of Sayuri Ichida’s signature works, printed by BENRIDO, a long-established art printing and publishing company in Kyoto, Japan.

The portfolio contains 6 works from Ichida's series 'Absentee', made during the COVID- lockdown in 2020. In this series she focuses on the temporality of our existence. This work evokes a sense of detachment centred around her own body. The limitations on social contact caused by the global pandemic brought her back closer to the trauma she experienced in her late teens with her mother’s death; fear of losing connection. This series responds to her emotional difficulties, such as the uncertainty and anxiety she went through during the Covid-crisis. Solitude reminds us of our own mortality and fragility. A visceral recognition surfaces at times, reminding us of the transience of life.