February 17, 2008

Heisei Era

A departure from the old and rustic.
I wanted to play with more angular and jarring shapes and colors.
The building is blue ball point pen and the sign and woman are from a printer.

The red at the bottom would be a Chinese signature seal that I hand carved from a piece of soapstone, but the watercolor texture has rendered it illegible.



If you could hear it, this piece would sound like the little things that happen in a city..but far away and echoey. Footsteps, people talking at a bus stop..nothing too exciting.
Very Quiet.




2 comments:

madeleine said...

that is a super-nice piece. It'd be cool to see you develop it into a theme.

Ben said...

Thank you so much Madeleine, I think I will.