View, Clockwise

View, Clockwise belongs to Shiomi's investigations of perspective and circulation, where the composition is organized around a rotational axis rather than a single fixed vantage point. The title signals a deliberate viewing instruction — the eye is asked to travel around the sheet rather than rest on a focal subject — a structural device Shiomi has used in works that reference architectural interiors, gardens, and household vessels. Executed in mokuhanga, the print likely uses multiple registered blocks to layer flat planes of color that interlock around the central pivot, with the grain of the cherry or shina block surfacing through the pigment in passages where the [baren](/glossary/baren) pressure has been varied. Hand-rubbed water-based pigment on [washi](/glossary/washi) gives the surface its characteristic absorption and matte sheen, distinct from the lacquered intensity of oil-based contemporary prints. The work belongs to a strand of Shiomi's practice in which everyday domestic geometry — circles, hexagons, framed apertures — becomes a contemplative device, drawing on Edo-period spatial conventions while operating firmly within a contemporary abstract vocabulary.