Acrylic on canvas. 6′ x 36′.
Destroyed. At 36 feet this was my longest painting. That’s me with all the hair at the far end of the painting. The arc is a true catenary arc. It was don by hanging a string from each end and tracing its shadow. I did this painting in about an hour and a half. That included photo shots by Bill Roseberry of the painting in progress. The yellow and red stripes are done with a 10″ paint roller on a broom handle. So I’m guessing it took about 2 or 3 minutes to roll the yellow U shape and about a minute & 1/2 to roll the red L shape. The white was done by brush so it must have been about an hour for that.
Tom Nakashima 
I think it must have been Roy Palmer who shot this slide. I didn’t own a wide-angle lens at the time. BR
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It was a 28 or 24 mm. could have been Roy’s
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It was 1970, early semester at CCAD, Tom and two students rented an empty space across from the school. It was Tom’s intention to expand his portfolio to larger works than could be achieved on a press and to identify with more current artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg who were also ‘painter-printmakers’. This may have been Tom’s first large-scale painting, but there may have been other smaller paintings and prints done previously in the same style.
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