A little gallery showing ShoDo highlights for 2020
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Kakizome in Berlin (January)
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Kakizome in my Dojo in Rostock (January)
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Kakizome in my Dojo in Rostock (January)
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Snow (February)
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Honey (March)
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Misogi (purification) - March
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March 8th - For International Women’s Day - a Haiku by Bashō
“Kisagata -
Seishi sleeping in the rain
wet mimosa blossoms”
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Light (family gift - March)
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嫦 [Chang]: Moon Goddess - March
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"Utterly Drunk" (April) - this was a sort of a joke/homework for my students: I asked them to try writing "Utterly Drunk" pretending to be… drunk. Nobody really tried, this is my rendition of it.
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Easter (April)
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"Princess" - a gift for one of my models.
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Honey… written using Honey on black paper (June)
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菖蒲華: “Irises Bloom” (One of my 72 Kō series) - June
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Haiku by Kazuki Ueno (上野一李)
“Yellow water lily /
water springs up /
from beneath"

(June)
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Tattoo models for a friend - these are the names of his two sons
(June)
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A quick experiment using a friend's iPad together with the Apple Pencil - September
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Autumn - ink on a leaf. (October)
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December: Traditional New Year's Greetings for 2021 (Year of the Metal Ox)