Copper Fantasy

Copper Fantasy is a companion to Bronze Fantasy within Shimura's metallic-ink landscape series, distinguished by the warmer, more reddish-orange cast of copper pigment. The print is built up from successive silkscreen passes, each laying down a flat color separation across the washi or heavyweight Western paper Shimura favors; the copper ink is typically held back for a single dominant register — usually the meadow band or the strip of distant trees — so that its reflectivity reads against matte chromatic neighbors rather than competing with them. The composition almost certainly reproduces the artist's recurring template of low horizon, atmospheric sky, and stratified middle ground, with the warmer metal pushing the image toward a sunset or late-afternoon reading. Within Shimura's wider body of work, the metal-keyed Fantasy prints function as a serial investigation: the same landscape archetype is rerun under different metallic temperatures (bronze, copper, gold, silver), allowing the viewer to compare how a single shift in ink chemistry reorganizes the spatial and seasonal mood of an otherwise fixed compositional structure.