Japan
As a young art student I studied the classics as well as eastern art. I was fascinated by Zen, Karesansui (sand art) and the concept of Wabi Sabi in Japan. These were utterly alien concepts in the West. I fell in love with their ethereal ambiguity, their self-sufficient, esoteric and often irrational beauty. I lived and worked in Japan from 2011-2013, arriving shortly before the Great Tohoku Earthquake.