"Children's Mind"

The sixth work in Sora's extended 'Children's Mind' series continues his investigation of abstract form as an analogue for psychological states. Working in mokuhanga on washi, Sora constructs a composition from overlapping planes and irregular organic shapes that suggest the spontaneous, unself-conscious quality of a child's imagination rather than illustrating it literally. The title functions as an interpretive frame: viewers are invited to read the arrangement of printed blocks as something playful or open-ended rather than resolved. Characteristic of Sora's practice, the registration of multiple blocks builds translucent layers, with bokashi gradations softening boundaries between colored areas. The numbered progression of the series implies Sora returned repeatedly to this theme, testing different color relationships and compositional configurations within a consistent conceptual premise.