There's something counter-intuitive about photographic artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. While most artists are happy to achieve a distinctive style and enjoy the rewards that this brings, Sugimoto is forever reinventing the wheel by developing, then abandoning, one style after another.
"I'm always trying to come up with some kind of idea, but if I feel I've done it, then I feel it's completed," he tells The Japan Times during a visit to his Tokyo atelier to discuss his latest exhibition at the Hara Museum of Art.
"My curiosity spreads to many, many fields. Some ideas hatch, but I try not to get bored," he says. "Once I get a signature style, I just stop and change the signature."