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In recent years Sugiyama’s style has greatly changed from artworks covered in three-dimensional geometrical forms to lines independently comprising artworks’ surfaces. By reducing things to lines, the picture’s refinement becomes pronounced. While his previous works had a preciseness that made them seem as if they were created with computer graphics software, they are in fact freehand pieces, based on images created in his mind. Even in his recent works of only lines, he maintains this way of thinking. He skillfully attains balance with a degree of freedom and calculations that restrict this freedom (or perhaps a kind of regularity). As a result, his works possess much tension without becoming rigid.