Mineralized Landscape

The Japanese title 石化する風景 (sekika suru fūkei) translates as 'landscape becoming stone' or 'petrifying landscape,' and the work's designation as an outdoor installation marks an extension of Kinukawa's lithographic practice beyond the conventional gallery context. Where his ongoing 'my little stone' series interrogates the relationship between a specific limestone site and a printed image of that site, Mineralized Landscape returns the printed image to outdoor space, suggesting a circular movement: stone collected from a landscape, drawn upon, printed, and the resulting work re-sited in landscape. Likely components include lithographic prints made from his hand-collected, hand-grained limestone fragments displayed in or near the geological context from which the source stones derived. The piece extends Kinukawa's conceptual framework — developed since 2018 and central to his work as a lecturer at Kyoto Seika University — into questions of duration, weathering, and the literal mineralization implied by both title and medium, while continuing his hybrid practice that bridges traditional stone lithography with site-specific and time-based concerns.