Kyojima Studio, 2024–2026

This three-dimensional scan preserves the studio as a spatial record of the place where I worked between 2024 and 2026.

This studio was a place where different parts of my practice converged: photography, darkroom work, bookmaking, design, programming, and the small acts of building and organizing that make sustained work possible. Film was developed and scanned here, photographs edited and sequenced, books assembled, tools modified, systems tested, and ideas moved between screens, paper, and physical form.

The scan preserves the studio in its final “working” state, only a few minutes before I began putting the books into boxes.

Photographs

Location

Kyojima is its own neighborhood next to Mukojima, but the two share more than a border. Its narrow streets still hold nagaya row houses, small workshops, artist residencies, and temporary exhibition spaces. Art here rarely feels separate from ordinary life: a show might happen in a house, a storefront, an alley, or under someone’s eaves, and someone might find it simply because it is already on their way home.

Architect, artist, and curator Titus Spree was one of the people who helped this culture take shape. After studying the area and working on neighborhood regeneration in the late 1990s, he led the 2000 Mukojima Networks project, much of which unfolded in Kyojima’s empty houses, vacant lots, and other overlooked spaces. I have been lucky enough to meet him in person. It makes this small piece of local history feel less abstract.