Author: tomnakashima

“Sanctuary, After Giotto” 1993

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Lithograph, 40” x 32” (worked & printed at RCIP).  Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking  is the place to go if you want to work in a non-traditional manner whereby you can make it up as you go.  My guru for this project was the Tamarind Masterprinter Eileen Foti.   I have some lithographic knowledge myself […]

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“Snow On Fuji” 1975

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Magna on raw canvas-triptych. 72” x 72”.  Artist’s collection. I was reading Yukio Mishima and being tutored Nihongo by Tachan Ruff.  My Great Grandfathers Sword was on my mind as were various brush marks from my Kanji practice.  The pattern for this is from a Hindu silk.  The shapes  in negative formed by the white […]

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“Samurai (all black)” 1973

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Unique print from 4 plates, 12” x 14”. Artist’s collection. I was working on prints with my Bodhisattva Will Petersen.  Watched a lot of Samurai movies – swords slashing kimonos.  The final proof was 4 colors but for this unique we printed the 4 plates each inked with black.

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“Sanctuary and Pyramid Scroll” 1987

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Graphite on paper, 72” x 48”. Artist’s collection. The idea for this drawing was in part inspired by a selfie taken by my sister-in-law Susan Hughes.  She took it while climbing Manchu Picchu. She passed a pyramid constructed  of 2” x 2”s and roofing tin (used by American hippies as meditation huts.  In the photo […]

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“Round Pile” 1999

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Sumi ink on paper, 24” x 30”. Unknown location. One of many treepiles.  I began doing these when I moved from DC (near Chinatown) to Berryville about 3/4 hrs outside of Washington.  At that time our little town was too far away to serve as a commuter village because of the distance.  They had begun […]

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“Retablo, Single Stick” 1993

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Oil on copper plate, 6” x 14”. One of many “retablo paintings” inspired by Mexican retablos, ex-votos, and Frida Khalo.  This stick image was first used in my sculpture “Monument to A  World War”.  It may be inspired by ‘The big stick’ in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and the Big Bomb of Doctor Strangelove & Slim […]

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