Valentines day!
Warming in Tokyo, amd feeling like spring. I’m thinking about my April exhibition in New York.
February already /
Backing paintings /
As the year comes to a close I have been backing paintings that I have done this year. I remembered someting my teacher, Marshal Glasier at the Art Students League of New York, said, “A painting has three lives, One when you do it, one when you hang it on the wall, and one when you sell it and send it into the world.”
With Ink Painting there is another, the life when you back it and it is wet on the drying board. It looks as it had never looked before and will never look again.
Cutting /
It’s the season to put chisel to bamboo, and cut a new seal
Finished, begun /
October’s exhibition was fininshed two weeks ago, and is mostly cleaned up,
The 2025 book is still under construction and will be sent to those that pre ordered when done. Many thanks to them and to all that came to the exhibition this year. You made it fun.
Now I bring out my brushes and my ink to begin a new year of painting
the last weekend /
So quickly it is the last weekend of this year’s exhibition, and it seems the edge of a typhoon will visit as well.
Natsume Soseki /
Cleaning under the stairs I encountered my old freind Mr, Soseki, waiting pationtly for another year and exhibition.
Then I mopped the floor. Friday starts the exhibition. It is exciting.
