Demensions 69”x 42” Panels
Panels: 3
Year: 2023
Medium: Water colour , ink, nanotubes
Description:
The painting is about life and death, the Japanese culture has and continues to have a great influence on the artist's life. The floating world (Ukiyo) of Japanese screens, seems a perfect way to explore the cycle of life. A warrior sits quietly looking inward questioning himself and his actions, armed and scared, both living his life and taking others.
The cherry trees surround and cover the panels, they represent the cycle of life, growing from the ground fed by the fallen flowers which cover the the surroundings. The tress " rebirth" blooming flower again they repeat the cycle again and again forever? Some of the flowers ( lives) choosing to fall, others forced, or aged. The warrior torn to understand the larger purpose of himself and that of why the world and he does not " learn".
The Japanese cranes flank the scene a symbol of hope, prosperity, and longevity call out and flail their wings with the answer unheard.
As skulls again the truth scatter the ground covered in lives are unnoticed.