19/10/2024
Maybe the most ambitious drawing yet in this series. The exact scene is not possible to photograph or see at once, so I pulled together memories and photographs from Osaka and drew them into one scene. But that is not the ambitious part. For me, the ambitious part is drawing all those people, which I've always had a fear of. Buildings are easier than people, maybe because they don't have opinions, lol. Isn't it funny? How we have fears like that? Even if we study something for so long. There are times when we want to reflect something truthfully, but we are not sure we have the skill to do it as it deserves, so it becomes more difficult to put the pencil down. But we should do it anyway. It is important. Not just for an art, but for anything that asks to be voiced in this world. The practice of trusting and letting things come together. Knowing that it won't always work as you want it to work, and accepting that. This drawing in fact came out quite different from what I imagined, but I think it works in its own way.
At any rate, what am I talking about? Here is the drawing. This is for the weekly column, on urban Japan. The topic this week is how Japan's mega cities might seem big, but when you are inside them you realize that smallness and awareness are more important. That is a funny thing, too. Read it as usual, over at https://thepossiblecity.substack.com/
Hope everyone smiles this week.
