Morning in the Beppu by Hasui Kids The mood is unhurried and

The mood is unhurried and immersive

lemon yellow

modern-feeling clarity

and open space rendered in Sue Graef's characteristically bold

denser core of the city in StudioSix's minimal white rendering — and the contrast defines the composition

Morning in the Beppu by Hasui Kids The mood is unhurried andMorning light comes slow and soft over Beppu, filtered through steam that rises from the geothermal springs the town is built around. Hasui Kawase captures this quality of early light with his characteristic precision the sky graded carefully from dark to pale, figures small against the scale of landscape and weather, architecture anchoring a scene that might otherwise dissolve entirely into atmosphere. It is a composition about the hour as much as