Sample monotype 02 (acrylic-on-glass series)

A second example from Kimura's acrylic-on-glass monotype series, made by drawing a squeegee across pigment laid on a glass plate and pulling a single impression. The interest is procedural: the artist is testing how acrylic, an inherently plastic and reflective medium, behaves when forced into the flatness of a print, and how successive films either occlude or admit the layers beneath. The result is an abstract composition in which gesture, viscosity, and drying time are themselves the subject — closer in spirit to postwar gestural abstraction than to the relief tradition of mokuhanga, but produced through an equally rigorous attention to matrix and pull. Within Kimura's catalogue the acrylic-on-glass works function as a sustained, decades-long investigation parallel to his organizational role founding MAXI GRAPHICA, the Kansai artists' group through which much contemporary printmaking in the region is now coordinated.