I was lucky enough to have the use of a studio, out of Nara, to work on paintings for my 2020 exhibition 101 Views of the Anthropocene.
The studio belongs to Kuniko and Kazu. I went there after visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki researching the atomic bomb.
The studio sits above the Takami River (Takami-Gama). In one of the photos, you can see Kazu’s ‘work-in-progress’ by the river, and the studio is the first long building that is visible. The patterns in the landscape are matched by those of the locals; a wood pile is as aesthetically interesting as a building.
