Kohei Kyomori (Studio View 5)

"Studio View 5" sits midway through Kyomori's eight-canvas studio series. Like its companions, it is constructed from mineral pigments suspended in nikawa glue, finished with UV resin — a pairing that joins a centuries-old palette of ground stones, shells, and earth oxides to a recent industrial polymer. Kyomori's practice consistently sets such materials against one another, mirroring the asymmetry he identifies between collapsing rural economies and the visual saturation of urban Japan. The "Craftspeople" tag places this canvas within his broader engagement with artisanal labour, but the studio view is reflexive: rather than depicting a third-party maker, Kyomori turns the same documentary impulse onto his own workspace. The repeated framing across multiple canvases proposes that the conditions of making — pigment jars, brushes, working surfaces, residue — are themselves a carrier of regional identity, not just the finished images.