Waterloo Walking
Posted by Rob | Filed under Abstract, Action, All Drawings
Back in the UK and straight off to a wedding.
When my father proposed to my mother, he found how to exist in Japan without making Tokugawa Ieyasu’s mistakes. Tokugawa’s creation of a city journey into nature left Toko with an awkward beginning point to Mount Fuji. Instead of making the difficult climb to the mountains, they were stuck with their own hills. When my father looked out the window from my mother’s apartment he didn’t see a journey from building to nature, he saw a builder’s reaction to nature. The Japanese own dramatic answer to feeling insignificant next to the Yamizo Mountains. The size of nature has been mankind’s battle since we left the caves: How do we exist next to nature’s grandeur? By creating our own nature. How then should we exist next to our own grandeur?
Mel, on one knee, became larger than every building in sight to Nancy. I admit, my father’s path was better, but my Japan is only New York, and I don’t have a girl worth me losing site of the city. I, simply, want to forget there is building in site for thirty minutes or so. I want to stay behind a locked door and exist in my own grandeur.
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