Art Touch Kazuko Furuta Postcard CW Print / TOUCH & FLOW

• Size: H210 × W120mm (portrait) or H120 × W210mm (landscape, varies by design)
• Weight (body): approx. 8g
• Weight (including package): approx. 10g
• Material: Paper (Esprit)
• Print technique: Copper foil, clear varnish (raised finish)
• Address side: Art Touch logo design
• Contents: 1 postcard

The CWP (Creative Works Print) series is a collaboration between TOUCH & FLOW and Japanese painter Kazuko Furuta. Furuta was born in Tokyo in 1985 and relocated to Yamagata to study Japanese painting at Tohoku University of Art and Design, graduating in 2015. She has continued working at the foot of Nishizo ever since, participating in land-rooted art projects including Hijinai in Mashiko, Tochigi and Hijiori no Hi in Okura Village, Yamagata. In 2017 she received the 5th Setagaya Art Award "Hisho."

Her paintings center on the quiet activities of animals and plants bound to particular landscapes. For this series, a designer worked from those paintings to create new compositions, and craftsmen then applied copper foil and clear varnish by hand, building a raised surface that catches light and adds physical depth to the image. The aim was not reproduction but the creation of something distinct from the original: a new object with its own texture and presence.

The address side of each card carries only the Art Touch logo, kept minimal so the image remains the focus.