Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film is pleased to present Erika Yoshino’s solo exhibition 'Digitalis'. Yoshino started making color works in 2010 and released the acclaimed book Just Like on the Radio in 2011. 'Digitalis' will include 15 of her latest works produced after the publication of Just Like on the Radio between 2011 and 2012.

I spent the day reading Yumiko Oshima. Here is a passage from her Digitalis:
Since childhood, I too have been basically unable to see the stars with my naked eyes. If I close my eyes, though, I see galaxies. They are amorphous luminous bodies that appear out of nowhere when I force my eyes closed because I cannot sleep. As a child, I used to study them often and discovered that some had consistent forms and moved at fixed speeds. I named the largest and brightest galaxy ‘Digitalis.’
Digitalis is also the name of my birth month flower, which is otherwise known as foxglove. According to Maurice Maeterlinck, it is ‘a flower that shoots into the sky like a depressed rocket.’
‐Erika Yoshino