Kohei Kyomori (Studio View 7)

"Studio View 7" continues Kyomori's documentary cycle of his own atelier. As with the rest of the series, the canvas combines mineral pigments — iwa-enogu — and UV-cured resin, producing a layered surface that registers both the granular materiality of nihonga painting and the harder, glossier visual register of contemporary plastics. This material doubling underwrites the broader thematic concern of Kyomori's practice: the tension between depopulating rural Japan, where traditional crafts persist by attrition, and over-saturated urban centres where the same imagery circulates as decorative reference. The "Craftspeople" tag identifies the subject not as an external figure but, implicitly, as the artist himself, with his studio standing in for the wider artisanal class. By the seventh canvas, the series has accumulated enough variation in framing to function as a survey rather than a single statement.