Thats Life #5/10

It is 2’ x 3’. It’s a mixed media collaboration with my 3 year old son Haku and me. The piece is 90% oil paint 10% acrylic and an element of assemblage where we mounted a skateboard wheel to the bottom corner. We painted this off the back porch of our monthly rental on Kauai, HI, looking at the ever growing toy filled yard and our neighbors' authentic single wall house. A dream is to one day own a similar property. A big theme in this painting is the cycle of outgrowing things. Material comes in and out of our lives at different points and at one point or another, we have to outgrow or divorce things and move on, giving space for what's to come. This can be painful at times, and at other ti...View all