"Children's Mind"

Positioned near the midpoint of Sora's extended 'Children's Mind' series, this fifth work reflects the sustained engagement with abstract form that characterizes his output across decades. By the fifth iteration, Sora's handling of the compositional structure may show greater confidence or deliberate divergence from earlier solutions, as the series becomes a record of an ongoing inquiry. The mokuhanga process — hand-printing from carved woodblocks using water-based pigments on washi — gives the series its consistent material character even as color and composition shift between works. Bokashi gradations, achieved by dampening areas of the block or paper before inking, may soften transitions between zones and lend an atmospheric quality to otherwise geometric divisions. The title's psychological orientation distinguishes the series from landscape or figural abstraction, grounding it instead in questions of perception and imagination.