10072020 . 22 x 30 in (56 x 76 cm) Acrylic on paper . 2020
09162020 . 22 x 30 in (56 x 76 cm) Acrylic on paper . 2020
08222020, 22 x 30 in (56 x 76 cm) Acrylic on paper, 2020
01092021-5, 22 x 47 in (56 x 120 cm) Forest mud and acrylic on paper, 2021
09142020 . 22 x 30 in (56 x 76 cm) Acrylic and ash on paper . 2020
While having practiced sado, the Japanese tea ceremony, for nearly twenty years, I never intended to make paintings of chawan(s), the highly symbolic tea bowls that are used for it. Yet one day, I realized that I had actually painted one.
This was the start of the chawan series, but then, I soon understood that these paintings were also revealing random landscapes, and that there was a connection between the tea bowl, the landscape, and my painting practice. Read more…
