The intensity of Japan’s rainy season, often seen as a time to be endured in exchange for the splendors of the spring flowers and fall colors, comes back every year to fill the senses and the heart. This poem and illustration tries to capture the mood it evokes.
Medium: Transparent watercolor, ink. Freehand lettering.
Medium: Transparent watercolor, ink. Freehand lettering.
The artist and poet, originally from Michigan, has been living in Japan for over three decades in a traditional style house in a three-generation family. She paints natural scenery, fragments of rural life, and microcosms of Nature in transparent watercolor, and creates image-based poetry inspired by Nature and life in Japan. She loves to explore satoyama (communally used mountains in rural areas) in search of “overlooked beauty” to bring to light.
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