March 2009
| A painting of three ‘hyotan’ (gourds) for March 2009. Hyotan is a symbol of good luck in Japan. I don’t think the work has any particular connotations of good luck but I remember using a lot of ‘Japanese’ images in my works I was making at that time. Hyotan probably caught my eyes as something that looked very traditionally Japanese. I replaced the three hyotan with three boxes, hiding one of the box behind the tracing paper. I am getting quite good at using the half transparent tracing paper as a screen. I like the way it hides and reveals things at the same time. It reflects my situation here too – kind of here but not really. Neither here nor there. It’s ok though. I am not complaining. | 
'Three Boxes', watercolour, watercolour paper, tracing paper and crayon, 18 December 2013
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