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Three fingertips with red manicure, a section of avocado split in two, a convenience store floating in the darkness of night - Yasuhiro Toyoda's work is a creation of beauty through focus and close-up.

The artist's work is a record of an essential, beautiful moment in time. Our hearts resonate with it. It has the quality of a work that can resonate.

Toyoda's style of depicting familiar and ordinary objects as if we were encountering them for the first time, as if they were fresh and meaningful, as if they were symbols of something, seems to serve as a guide for us to recognise the …