“Being instantly captivated by the beautiful curved and straight lines, by the exquisitely calculated balance of light and shade, and by the various contrasts of all of these in this structure designed by Tadao Ando, I could not take my finger from the release button.

It felt as if I were pulled into a finely honed space that minutely orchestrates the very shades of grey that I generally value in my own monochrome work. I was also deeply impressed to see how the building was designed to change its appearance in various ways according to the season and the time of day. I hope this manages, at least to some extent, to mirror the praise of shadows that Ando expressed through the architecture of the Hyogo Prefectural Art Museum.”