Nakanosawa Museum, Gunma, Japan

I was setting up my exhibition last weekend in Gunma.  It was a contrast to my Japanese nagaya studio.

To supplement the Yamanote paintings I have been working on some larger dragon paintings, but my studio is a Japanese rokujo - 6 mat room.  And the longest I could stretch out my work for paintings was about 2 meters. 



But the longer dragons were 11 meters x 2.2 meters, so it was quite a struggle to keep them in proportion, and I was not able to see the full paintings until they were on the wall in the museum.  I had measured the museum by walking, 26 steps, and measured the height by my own 182 cm. standing by the wall.  I was in a bit of a panic when the dragons went on the wall, wondering if they would fit.

 

There were some tense moments. But in the end they fit.

 

I got to do some ladder work too, setting up a Gunma andon.