Yoshida spent two years at the University of Hawaii in the late 1940s prior to earning his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1953. After attending graduate school at Syracuse University, he returned to Chicago in the early 1960s to teach at SAIC, where he stayed for four decades. Yoshida experimented with screenprinting, sometimes using unorthodox methods. This work, which shares many aspects of the artist’s screenprints, is characterized by playful forms that were created by rubbing over torn paper placed beneath the sheet.