Remember "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"?

It seems as though those days are behind us.

I really want to go to Japan but since the chance of that happening is almost zero, I paint half imaginary/half real places in Japan.

There’s a better chance of that asteroid hitting Earth than me ever getting to take a trip to Japan. So, I paint pictures of places that almost exist.

First painting of 2025. Holbein Irodori gouache on paper.

I received a Turner Acryl Gouache set in a Secret Santa for Solstice. #nopeman

The last thing I painted in 2024.