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Hard weather is beginning in Tokyo.  I started to paint on the train, where it is still air conditioned.  But with Tokyo Power on a thread thanks to our nuclear dependancy, it is hard to say how long even the trains will last.

Train Mandala

October Exhibition

Got to choose a painting for the postcard and for images on guide maps etc..

Picasso said,  "All art is a lie in search of the truth."

Balthus said, "Painting is a language not easily translated into another."

I say, "People that wish to sell their art make up stories to connect their visual language to the audience's more oral tradition."

Anyway I have to put stuff into a sort of order and put a story to it.  This year I am thinking of using a drawing, a colored drawing for my selling image.

Black Ship Skip Mandala

Yarn Bombing

It seems that the Japanese have been yarn bombing for some time, even before it has become recently popular.

Funny first week of rainy season this year, almost rain, then bitter cold rain then a nice weekend.

Fukushima artist

There is a very interesting instillation in gallery Higure in Yanaka, on the cross street, near the bottom of the Yanaka Ginza steps.  It is moving instillation and if you happen to be walking around Yanaka it is worth a visit.  till the 16th