The day the earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit northeast Japan, we were on our way to Whistler. The next morning, the BC paper was full of amazing photographs of the destruction. There were a couple of the shipping containers at the port in Sendai. The composition was striking: rectangular shapes pushed against one another, in shades of red, with punches of bluish green. A crane in three large yellow pieces sat atop the piles. The images stuck with me.
An interpretation of shipping containers after the tsunami March 2011
This is my artistic response to those images that embedded themselves in my brain. It is the underpainting, but its a start. Just like the recovery efforts in Japan.