Floating World art collectors

Floating World art collectorsAcrylic on canvas 48 x 48 in. 2016 "Certain events can have a major impact that will last a lifetime. The forced removal of the Japanese Canadians my family was among them from the west coast into the B. C. interior in 1942 is one of those events. My troubled feelings regarding that traumatic time have remained unfaded along with my ambivalent attitude towards being Canadian of Japanese origin." "Some years ago, as a way of coming to terms with my

An incidental splash of nature on China’s ubiquitous raw steel and rickshaws

These works are proposed as small breath paintings

Custom framed or Unframed

gathering what they can to sell at market

I have drawn into the nearly complete pieces with rubbing alcohol

Fueled by memory

But for the girl with the pink kimono none of that matters

Cornerstone helps support women who are in increased danger in this time of required isolation

we were given a fresh copy of the same crown and told to colour it

time seems to stop

20 x 16 Inches

spirituality and language as represented through the missing fragments revealing exposed flesh areas