'Mirror Room - Katsura'

Mirror Room — Katsura (2006) refers to the Katsura Imperial Villa in western Kyoto, one of the masterworks of Japanese architectural and garden design, completed in the seventeenth century for the imperial family. The villa's gardens are designed around views and reflections in the surrounding ponds, where the architecture and landscape mirror each other in the water's surface. Shiomi's print transforms this specific historical garden into an abstract meditation on reflection, space, and the aesthetic concept of mitate — finding the garden's essence in the interplay of reflected images rather than in literal depiction.