Āto Naoki

these scenes as a backdrop for his new artwork, for example, placing the characters from the video game Street Fighter on a traditional woodblock print of a Japanese street.
Naoki is inspired by the artists of the Ukiyo-e movement, and also by modern day manga artists. Through merging manga, ukiyo-e and contemporary culture, Naoki pays homage to Japanese culture in a novel way. The artist screenprints onto wood and then float mounts each piece within a wooden frame, Ato hand makes all of these frames using a technique his father taught him. This is in keeping with traditional woodblock printing.

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