Sample monotype 03 (Misty Dutch series, after Mondrian)

From Kimura's Misty Dutch series, a body of acrylic-on-glass monotypes that take Mondrian's De Stijl grid as a point of departure and dissolve it through the translucence proper to his squeegee technique. Where Mondrian's mature canvases assert hard black armatures around primary rectangles, Kimura's pull softens those edges into haze: the orthogonal scaffold remains legible but is filtered through layered acrylic films, so that color blocks bleed at their boundaries and the white intervals carry tonal weight rather than reading as ground. The conceit — Dutch geometry seen through Kyoto mist — extends Kimura's long-running concern with how opacity and transparency interact under pressure, and treats a canonical modernist source as a test bed for that question. The series reflects his position as Professor Emeritus of Printmaking at KCUA, where the dialogue between Western abstraction and Japanese print methods has been a recurring teaching frame.