An older image that I still haven’t come up with a good title for. It’s all about inertia and creating it for yourself as opposed to being moved by it. Capturing chance and change, fate and fortune and bending them to your own needs. I’ve always liked water, as both metaphor and design element - just not so much when I’m in it. This seemed like an appropriate piece for this Illustration Friday, seeing as I’ll be riding on a ferry over the Inland Sea, trying to seem totally cool with the lack of solid ground under me.
The O-Bon Holidays are beginning, so my wife and I will be heading down south to visit her relatives, both corporeal and not. I’ve enjoyed the festival as an observer before, but never as a participant, so this should be an interesting week. After a little grave cleaning and conversation with the dead, it will be nice to wander around a place that is pretty much as different from Tokyo as a person could go without leaving the country.
A big thank you to everyone who commented last week! You’re all appreciated! See everyone when I get back.
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August 9, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Kevin
Another great piece. I like the metaphor. The hole in the top wave, does it just suggest that the movement of the water doesn’t affect, or that it would open up to swallow him? Or is it just space left over from the water he took? Great idea.
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August 9, 2006 at 4:27 pm
peeko
you have some kickass style!! great texture and movement!
August 10, 2006 at 6:26 am
Alida
I agree, great style! Love the texture and variety the paper brings.
March 15, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Edward
Excellent, love it!
March 16, 2007 at 2:50 am
nineiron
I’ve got a suggestion for a title for the water illustration (if I may call it that).
Contageous Purification - reason? Water is recognised as having miraculous powers of healing (purification) and being Australian I found out that the Australian Aborigines said a giant frog once swallowed the earth’s water to release it only when the other animals, dying of thirst, made it burst out laughing - and laughing is contageous.