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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Jeff Michael Hammond</title>
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		<title>Tokyo Photo 2013 heads for Zojoji Temple</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s first international photography fair, Tokyo Photo, strengthens its hold on the photography scene in Asia with its fifth yearly installment from Sept. 27 to 30 at a new location at the Zojoji Temple in the downtown area of the city. The move to the storied temple for Tokyo Photo 2013, making the event a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An art expedition to Southeast Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mixed media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confronting the ongoing state of transformation that characterizes their native Singapore, two artists exhibiting at a new exhibition, &#8220;Welcome to the Jungle,&#8221; adopt quite different approaches and media. Francis Ng in &#8220;Constructing Construction #1&#8243; turns his camera on an unfinished section of an ugly new highway, a speeding bus whizzing by. Hong Sek Chern, meanwhile, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art and poetics of a domestic environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jaws dropped as American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, arriving in Japan in the 1980s, named Yasujiro Ozu as one of the directors he was most inspired by. Ozu, active from the 1920s up to the 1960s, was then considered old fashioned for his slow pace and lack of movement, and for the middle-class sensibilities of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking out for the sound of art</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Titian&#8217;s &#8220;Bacchus and Ariadne,&#8221; the riotous clash of cymbals and blowing of trumpets in the hands of the revelers can almost be heard. In similar ways, artists from at least the Renaissance onward, have attempted to suggest the presence of music in their paintings. By the modern period, many artists had abandoned representational styles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step into the Lynchian world of oddities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While mostly recognized as the director of such films as &#8220;Eraserhead,&#8221; &#8220;Wild at Heart&#8221; and &#8220;Mullholland Drive,&#8221; David Lynch has long turned his hand to other media. About 80 of his works, encompassing photography, painting, music and short films are being brought together for an exhibition at the Laforet Museum. &#8220;David Lynch: Chaos Theory of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Res Artis plots a path for future art residencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1990s saw a tremendous emphasis, continuing through to today, on artist residency programs, run by museums and galleries, educational establishments or independent foundations and organizations. While some previous incarnations of these residencies, particularly in the 1960s or in the early years of the 20th century, offered artists a place of tranquility and reflection away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tadanori Yokoo prepares to &#8216;move on&#8217; in different ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tadanori Yokoo, bad boy of the Japanese art scene since the 1960s, is showing nine works, most of which were made within the last couple of years, at Scai The Bathhouse in the Yanaka district of Tokyo. The small exhibition, titled &#8220;Destination the Teshima Art House Project&#8221; serves to not only showcase these specific works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend sees the fourth installment of &#8220;Tokyo Photo&#8221; &#8212; Japan&#8217;s first international photography fair, and now the biggest event of its kind in Asia. Since its inception in 2009, the fair has cast its net wide, and this year has more than 35 agencies and galleries taking part. Over half of them are from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s one-time rebellious artistic vanguard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8220;art group&#8221; barely does justice to the collective of artists in postwar Japan known as Gutai. Founded in 1954 by Jiro Yoshihara, the group renegotiated the borders of art, incorporating performance, installation and even the natural environment into their creations. Bringing together more than 150 artworks, the National Art Center (NACT) is currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Max Ernst: The artist who raised eyebrows with &#8216;pictorial&#8217; texture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite several major exhibitions of his work that have been held in Japan since the 1970s, Max Ernst is still widely considered here to be one of the most difficult and obscure of the Surrealists. Constantly exploring new ideas, methods and materials, his art is perhaps less instantly recognizable than that of, say, Rene Magritte [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking beyond the giant canvases</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The image of Jackson Pollock as the archetypal American artist, making big gestures on giant canvases, is firmly entrenched in the public consciousness. Dripping paint on canvases laid out on the floor, working in rather than working on his art, Pollock epitomizes the rebellious artist, disregarding the figurative in a whirl of energy touched by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking beyond the giant canvases</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The image of Jackson Pollock as the archetypal American artist, making big gestures on giant canvases, is firmly entrenched in the public consciousness. Dripping paint on canvases laid out on the floor, working in rather than working on his art, Pollock epitomizes the rebellious artist, disregarding the figurative in a whirl of energy touched by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the &#8216;City of Water&#8217; was a font of culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Byzantine times in the 9th century, Venice was a strategic trading center straddling Europe and the East. Venetian merchants traded wool and silk textiles for spices, grains and other commodities from Asia, making the city &#8212; and the Venetian Republic of which it was the center &#8212; one of the most powerful and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impressionists and friends: on the verge of the modern</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be an exhibition of Impressionist art somewhere in Tokyo every year, such is its popularity in Japan. This summer,the National Art Center, Tokyo is presenting &#8220;Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art,&#8221; showing works from the celebrated Washington museum&#8217;s collection. The exhibition boasts 83 works, including nearly a dozen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From within the &#8216;outsider&#8217; came a wealth of imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;American Innocence, Welcome To The Realms of the Unreal&#8221; at the Laforet Museum brings together 64 paintings and some personal objects of the &#8220;outsider artist&#8221; Henry Darger, who was born in Chicago in 1892. Just before his 4th birthday, his mother died giving birth to his sister, who was put up for adoption before he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Centre Pompidou brings the surreal to Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its passage from the art world into everyday speech, the word &#8220;surreal&#8221; has ended up as mere shorthand for the bizarre and the unusual. But it originally referred to something deeper. Coined by the French poet Guilaume Apollinaire from the words &#8220;sur&#8221; (&#8220;beyond&#8221;) and &#8220;realisme&#8221; (&#8220;realism&#8221;), &#8220;Surrealism&#8221; was adopted by another poet, Andre Breton, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian art challenges Western museums&#8217; way of thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art from Asia has enjoyed increased global interest in the past few decades, which has brought major changes to the way in which the art scene now views this hitherto neglected region. In a special symposium, &#8220;How is the World Engaging with Contemporary Asian Art?,&#8221; at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo on Feb. 17, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The man who popularized the Edo pleasure district</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Yoshiwara pleasure district of Edo (old Tokyo) has often been immortalized in word and image for the exquisite carnal pleasures it offered. It was also considered the center of Edo Period (1603-1867) cultural life. If anyone could be said to have put Yoshiwara on the map, it was the bookseller, publisher and visionary Tsutaya [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;&#8221;Home Sweet Home&#8221; by Invader&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gallery Target Closes Nov. 19 Since its origin in 1970s New York, when youths started &#8220;bombing&#8221; buildings and subway trains with stylized graffiti of their names and other messages, street art has morphed to encompass various media and subject matter. It has also become hot property in the global contemporary art scene. The artist known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What artists see in themselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to Florence in Italy have long been awed by the works in two of the city&#8217;s finest museums: the Uffizi Gallery and the Pitti Palace. But, perhaps preoccupied by prime examples of Raphael, Botticelli and other Renaissance artists, many visitors let their stay come to an end without enjoying the walk along the elevated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women of quiet strength</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Female artists play a significant role in Japan&#8217;s art world today, but a century ago, only a few women made a mark in the then male-dominated field. Shoen Uemura stands out as one of the most successful, a status she earned through the relentless study and perfection of her chosen theme of bijin-ga &#8212; pictures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shedding some light on shadows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows you around nearly everywhere but you never notice? It may sound like a joke from a Christmas cracker but the answer is, of course, your shadow. Not only shadows of the human figure, but also shadows of trees, buildings and everyday objects surround us all the time &#8212; though we barely notice them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verner Panton&#8217;s colorful visions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Experimentation, playfulness, adventure. Through the example of maverick Danish designer Verner Panton, these words have entered the lexicon of many designers today. In the first half of the 20th century, design schools were rare, so Panton trained as an architect, as did many future designers of his day, including his mentor, Arne Jacobsen. For many, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unified by Art Nouveau</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Art Nouveau&#8217;s birth at the end of the 1900s not only affected the art world but also radically transformed the public&#8217;s visual awareness, helping to propel product design, graphic design, typography and manufacturing into the 20th century. The Setagaya Art Museum&#8217;s &#8220;Art Nouveau et Industrie du luxe a Paris&#8221; (titled &#8220;Art Nouveau in Paris&#8221; on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico&#8217;s search for an artistic identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What kind of art would best represent a rapidly developing country coming out of the social upheaval of a violent revolution &#8212; especially when it had, only a century before that, just thrown off the yoke of colonial rule? Twentieth-century Mexico faced just this question &#8212; how it attempted to answer it can be seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allowing ourselves to be deceived by art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether enjoying the sight of shadow puppets against a wall or the suggestive placing of objects in an Austin Powers movie, people have long delighted in the playful use of images. &#8220;Visual Deception,&#8221; at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo collects together almost 150 artworks from various countries and epochs that, in a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A creative life that blossomed in the asylum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To view the pictures of Aloise Corbaz is to enter a fantastic, colorful world of a beautiful young woman with her handsome suitor, filled with carriages and crowns, roses and nights at the opera. The belle is Aloise herself, or, perhaps more precisely, Aloise&#8217;s ideal self, center stage in a theatrical production far from her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rothkos reunited in Chiba</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The surfaces of Mark Rothko&#8217;s canvases loom large, impenetrable and formidable, inviting you in but simultaneously denying you entry. Their deceptive simplicity has long posed a riddle to those who stand before them. Since the American artist&#8217;s death in 1970, his major works have been split between art museums on different continents, and rarely have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cubism remixed at a European crossroads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cubism, as it emerged from the experiments of the painters Pablo Picasso and George Braque, was for some a necessary but limited artistic investigation in the 20th century. For others, though, it offered a blueprint for a new language, as in that part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that became Czechoslovakia, where it influenced sculpture, painting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yuki Tawada: &#8220;Missing Folklore&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Michael Hammond</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For some photographers, the decisive moment for a photograph is the second the shutter is pressed. For others, the darkroom offers a host of possibilities: tonal variations, framing, paper quality, even superimposition. For Japanese photographer Yuki Tawada, the artwork is not considered finished even when the printing process has been completed, as the paper and [...]]]></description>
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