Goodbye for now too my friends in Japan. Look to Hope
I will really miss the great birds of Japan...and many, many other things. So thankful for the time I got to spend there.
The variety of rocks and their irregular yet necessary connection with each other. [Wabi-Sabi] - worth looking into!
the JAPS.
Rice Paddies I'm not finished with you yet. Environmental Art. I need land!
So much happening in nature.
The sun rising in Japan.
I've been so blessed to know some incredible people at Seian University .
Junya Kajiura a master in the making and great guy.
Rie Okamoto has been like a guardian angel. I can't thankyou enough for her friendship during my time at Seian.
The University offered me my first solo exhibition!!
Element.
Tala San the rock technician (yes there was a rock technician!!) very cool, very passionate about his craft. And Oca Sensei on the right; who thought so alike...I couldn't of asked for a better mentor. (Here suggesting the process to me of creating my own charcoal. Daymn
Close up on the texture. Created over about 5 months, it's got more layers than an onion. Yeah.
The work takes on a whole new light in the gallery space.
FIN
I'll be uploading the 'Element.' series very soon.
Hope.
Shipping yards you intrique me.
This photo fittingly represents my relationship with Japan. A mysterious place of so much beauty yet very much veiled in allot of darkness...but the light shines brighter when placed in a dark room. Let's pray for Japan, HOPE IS ALIVE, Japan is shining
Himeji Castle. I was amazed just how empty the historical building was; these light sculptures were poetically seated in the absence, reflecting on a faint memory of what was and what is.