About

I went to Japan to see what it was like.

I liked enough of what I saw to live there for the past 5 years.

I would say that I am involved in more “incidents”/ have a lot more accidents here than I did when I lived in the U.S., but healthcare here is a lot cheaper.

Now I live in the mountains by Nagano city.  I paint outside whenever weather/ circumstances permit.   I spend a lot of time looking for places with a certain ‘energy’ to them, and when I find those places/ those things, I go back.

I`m not so much concerned with how much a picture looks like what it depicts, but I want for my pictures to feel the way that I feel when I`m there.

Something is lurking deep in the scenery.

Things are not things, so much as they are expressions of energy.　
　Trees, for instance, are not merely “trees”, but a growing, breathing, reaching presence.
It is easy to forget, so I make “reminders”.