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Automatism series: Toe Sensation
Sawako Goda

Automatism series: Toe Sensation, 1993

Medium
Pastel crayon on paper
Dimensions
15 1/2 × 10 5/8 in. (39.37 × 26.99 cm)
Accession Number
2025.16
Copyright

©The Estate of Sawako Goda. Image courtesy Nonaka Hill Gallery.

Credit

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Purchase with funds provided by the Drawings and Photography Committee

Sawako Goda made lyrical drawings with colored pencils inserted between her toes. The swirls, knots, and serpentine lines, vivid in color and rhythmic in pattern, evoke the automatic, free drawing of the Surrealists.

Currently on view atMOCA Grand Avenue
Collection
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