Monday, March 2, 2026

Light of day

 







As I am doing a lot of drawing and layering of pictures, I am accumulating many images that haven't found a place here yet. But in looking them over I did come to the stunning realization that


NOT EVERYTHING I WORK ON HAS TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY!


So with that in mind, I'll leave off a few thousand things I was thinking of showing you and go with just these:





A few days ago I came up with a Tolstoy inspired title for my post and felt strongly enough about it to put it on my shirt, at least fictionally. Then I spent quite awhile making it into this self portrait drawing:


















Here we have a picture from Tokyo, of a train crossing near the house we were staying at just beyond the edge of a fabulous park.

We loved that place we stayed at despite it being FILLED WITH SPIDERS! Which speaks to its other qualities. We often came home late at night (for us), down a canal path and across these train tracks. We were in the biggest city in the world, but it felt like a lonely country railroad crossing:




















And finally (and with that word I will be axing hours of prepared material for you!), there is this drawing I made or worked up out of an already much worked up image from the Kyoto Botanical Gardens, one of my favorite places in Japan.




















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