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Lantern Festival In Nagasaki 2009
Acrylic on paper. Framed – 49,5×75 cm (private collection) From café Foglio, just a minute away from my apartment … A large window overlooks the river … Through the green foliage, the glimpse of an eye belonging to the famous Spectacle Bridge. Orange lanterns hang, reminding me of the festival to come … Soon, it…
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First O-Kunchi in Nagasaki. 2008
Acrylic on paper – Framed 56×75 cm. (private collection) The town celebrates O-Kunchi. From my balcony I watch mothers all dressed-up walking towards the elementary school and children waiting for the dragon to come and dance for them, followed by the heavy portable shrine shaped like a boat that will soon roll by.