Makoto Kojima
The Tide Will Not Keep Still
Kojima’s first exhibition since returning to Kyoto gathers a new body of paintings made along the Sea of Japan coast, where the artist has worked outdoors through a full turn of the seasons. Ash from beach fires is bound into the pigment; the horizon is scraped back and rebuilt daily until it holds. The gallery’s lower rooms present Vessel for Ash, a group of wood-fired stoneware forms conceived as instruments for keeping — of tide charts, of weather, of time that has already passed.
