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Where Stories Begin

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Takayuki Togo

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3d ago

The Return Without Reversal

Answering after the choice remains in place

Horizontal abstract painting on a dark brown ground. A rough blue-black area sits at upper right, with a thin coral-brown diagonal stroke reaching a separate gray-green horizontal layer at lower left.

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Where Stories Begin

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Takayuki Togo

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4d ago

What Reasons Did Not Answer

The question left open by a sound explanation

Horizontal abstract painting on a muted clay-gray ground, mostly covered by a large matte blue-black painted area. Small copper-colored and stony-blue underlayers show at the lower left and right edges.

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Where Stories Begin

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Takayuki Togo

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5d ago

Both Could Hold

A stronger plan and a viable alternative

Horizontal abstract painting on a warm ochre-gray ground. A broad dry purple-iron sweep curves down the left, while a thin dark green-brown seep continues vertically on the right, separated by open ground.

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Where Stories Begin

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Takayuki Togo

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6d ago

The Weight Reassigned

What Mira chose to carry before the route changed

Horizontal abstract painting on a pale blue-gray ground, with a thin moss-green veil, an irregular scraped opening left of center, and a dense rust-red painted area with dark fine traces at lower right.

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Where Stories Begin

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Takayuki Togo

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Nov 3

With the Other Still Open

What remains beside a well-supported choice

Horizontal abstract image on a dark blue-charcoal ground. A broad iron-blue painted area meets a continuous curved red-brown layer, with pale scuffing at their shared edge.

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Where Stories Begin

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Takayuki Togo

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Oct 19

What Crosses the Gap

A shared reason, another person’s judgment

Horizontal abstract image on a warm off-white ground, with a broad pale ochre and gray-green scumble left of center, faint ochre and gray-green traces at upper right, and a short rust-brown and cream diagonal near the lower right.

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Where Stories Begin

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Takayuki Togo

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Oct 18

What Did Not Travel

The reasons a brief instruction leaves behind

Horizontal abstract painting with a short rust-brown stroke near the upper left and overlapping gray-earth, ochre, and muted green paint near the lower right edge, separated by a broad continuous pale ground.

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Where Stories Begin

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Takayuki Togo

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Oct 17

Precisely Apart

When careful adjustments leave the whole unsettled

Horizontal abstract image on a deep green-black ground, with several separate irregular bone-white and muted ochre paint areas; dark brushed intervals remain between their mostly firm edges.

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Where Stories Begin

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Takayuki Togo

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Oct 15

Beyond the One Line

What we assume another person has already seen

Horizontal abstract image with irregular copper-green paint at upper left and lower right, red-earth paint at upper right and lower left, and scraped edges around a pale stone-colored open center.

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Where Stories Begin

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Takayuki Togo

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Oct 11

Changed in the Receiving

How a relationship can keep shaping us without replacing what is gone

Landscape abstract image on a warm off-white ground. Broken grey-teal marks curve at left of center into a pale dusty-rose area on the right. Short reddish-brown marks rise toward the upper right, above a broad pale interval with faint earlier traces below the middle.