Detail: Yoshitaka Nanjo, born in 1977 in Kagawa Prefecture, produces two-dimensional work mainly on the theme of landscape. Nanjo’s chief original feature is gathering soil from the place to be depicted and using this to generate his painting. He goes to each site, observes it, takes photographs of interesting views, collects soil then brings this back to his atelier to work with. He breaks the landscapes down into their constituent elements, then reconstructs them, selectively, into tableaux.