In photography and image processing these days, the general idea is that higher resolution and more faithful color rendition makes for better images. Of course, that is only the general idea. Thankfully, there are some creative types out there who disagree.

Although they produce different styles of work, a link between Japanese painter Satoshi Watanabe and Australian photographers Damon Armstrong and Jimmy Mac is that they both use processes that deny details and remove information from their representations -- processes that result in art as a tableau of clues, from which the viewer must reconstitute an image in his or her imagination.

Watanabe, only 36 and already successful, currently has an exhibition at the Taro Nasu Gallery in Roppongi. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, he shows 13 pieces here on the theme of New York City, where he spent the last year.