The Poetic Eye

I have painted a number of works based on tragedies, war and disasters which aren't really shared on facebook for a lot of reasons. On a deeper level we are all interconnected and so the sorrows across the world are felt in my heart as well, how can it not? My "sorrow pieces" are intended to be poems, to comfort the heart, and to serve as a philosophical and spiritual catalyst. This piece of wood was plucked out of the epicenter of the tsunami that hit Japan so badly in 2011. It was shipped to me and I let it dry in the sun for months (bottom right). Then on the day my mother died, well, that felt like the right time to begin painting it and so I did. Here is the result, an odd shaped piece of wood memorializing what happened in Japan on that fateful day. And yes, I will be doing some art work on what is going on in Georgia, as well as what happened in Lanahai, for, to my mind, these incidents are all linked in a special way.

I did a couple of paintings of blonde courtesans with fancy red tortoise hair ornaments in the style of woodblock prints of Edo Japan - I just love all types of fashions, have to say....east or west.