Inori- Prayer
2011
Oil on canvas board
Once in a while I take a stab at using oil paints. Every time I realize that the pain of clean up and having to wait for it to dry isn’t worth the possible good results. I think I will stick with watercolors for now.
When I lived in Japan (around 2008-2009) I used to walk the same way back from the train station to my host family’s house every day. One evening as I walked past the closed shops I saw a man seated at a foldable card table with a small lantern covered in palmistry signs. He seemed a surreal figure, unnoticed by passerby.
Street palm readers aren’t really that uncommon, but the atmosphere stuck with me and I drew this some time later. I guess the passage of time rendered the memory somewhat more unreal than it actually was.
THE LIZARDSKIN GIRL 