Sugimoto shares Kozo's deeply meditative engagement with time, impermanence, and Zen influenced minimalism, creating works where process and material restraint carry philosophical weight. Both artists work at the intersection of Eastern contemplative tradition and Western conceptual frameworks using spare, refined aesthetics.

Long's practice of using natural materials such as mud, stone, and earth applied directly to paper and walls mirrors Kozo's reverence for raw natural substances and meditative process. Both artists foreground the philosophical and tactile relationship between human action and elemental materials.

Twombly's works on paper share Kozo's interest in mark making as a contemplative and almost calligraphic act, with surfaces that feel both ancient and immediate. His sparse gestural language and reverence for the silence between marks parallel Kozo's wabi sabi inflected minimalism.