Kohei Kyomori (Studio View 4)

"Studio View 4" continues a series in which Kyomori turns the documentary gaze inward. The canvas is built up in mineral pigments — iwa-enogu, prized in nihonga painting for the way ground minerals refract light through translucent layers — and finished with UV resin to produce a hardened surface unlike traditional Japanese painting supports. This material hybrid is consistent across the series and signals Kyomori's interest in placing tools of regional, slow-time tradition into dialogue with industrial finishes coded as contemporary or urban. The "Craftspeople" framing links this internal view of one studio to Kyomori's wider concern with the depopulating rural districts in which such artisanal practices increasingly persist as exceptions. Studio View 4 functions less as portrait than as inventory: the work is staged as a record of the conditions under which the rest of the series was made.