Inside Sandwich, artist Kohei Nawa’s Kyoto studio, taxidermied deer stand alongside sneakers, a camcorder and an antique chair — a menagerie of objects awaiting transformation. Nearby, finished pieces — a biwa lute, an owl and stacks of photographs — are covered in transparent beads that render them in magnified detail. “I just happened to find this place,” says Nawa of his studio, a former sandwich factory located on the outskirts of the city, near the Uji River.