Farm Woman

Farm Woman—a figure from the rural world Azechi grew up in before finding the mountains—shows his bold, simplified style applied to a subject of agricultural labor. The farm woman's figure, strong and compact, shaped by physical work in the same way the mountain man's body was shaped by climbing, occupies her compositional space with practical self-sufficiency. Azechi's mountain village subjects connected the climbing world to the farming world, both communities sharing the same vertical terrain.