Tokyo
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透明観 tōmeikan – tokyo
deepening spaces –inching somewhere, somehow,absorbing and refracting 透 – tō – to be transparent, leave gap, hold light明 – mei – bright/ illumination観 – kan – observation meditation; perceive
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Portrait of Tokyo Ren Master
Many visitors to the friendly Ren Bar in east Tokyo made calligraphy and artworks to express their wishes for the new year… here is my fast ink portrait of the famous master!
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High Bridges – Walking Drawing Tokyo West from Naka Meguro
along suspended riverblocked by oncoming vertical flyovernanamemeeting high polished walls isolating the residential worldfloating gardens flowing into alloy platforms intertwined shafts, containers hummingneutral perimetersemerging and reshaping the ground and drawing out energy lines overlapping populous spacessuffusedabove a tandem rotor flying heavilyleaden quick descent and dark blue chill moving onundulating and avoiding trafficsoon underground in quiet
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Drawing and painting directions
Recently while working on the cityscape film I’ve also been looking for connections with abstraction. The Journey to Nowhere colours and Tokyo background of concrete, diffused structures of metal and glass move into fairly varied drawing and painting compositions to take forward…