This image (the verso side of Barrier Against the Wind) is scratched into wet paint to present Ted Nakashima’s article for The New Republic in 1942. At the time Ted and Mako (his wife) were in temporary internment at Camp Harmony, awaiting transfer to Minidoka Internment Camp in Idaho.  Perhaps because of this writing Ted […]

This painting is done in a modified technique I developed to mimic the traditional Japanese byobu (folding screen). While the hinging and panels are more or less traditional it is painted with oil and gilded leaf on panels. The left panel displays a figure of a martyr in a cart I drew from a German […]