Motoi
Yamamoto
The Poetry of Salt and Memory In the delicate, crystalline labyrinths created by Motoi Yamamoto, one finds a profound meditation on the ephemeral nature of existence. Born in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Yamamoto has developed a practice that transcends traditional boundaries, blending installation, painting, and drawing into …
A portrait built from Motoi Yamamoto's own colours
Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.