They're eclectic pieces, mostly sentimental -- and with a definite Japan bias -- including:
- a tourist map of where I lived in Japan,
- my name calligraphed in Japanese characters,
- the character for "love" -- written by a second-grader (with her mom's help, but still!),
- various happy sayings sent by my Japanese mothers,
- a picture of my youngest brother, along with his "metamorphosis" art project,
- a photograph I purchased in support of a photographer friend
- a poem composed by my Japanese father (a literature student at Kyoto University) and calligraphed by my Japanese mother (a calligraphy instructor)
- a drum painted by someone on my taiko team
- Maui's hook, a souvenir of New Zealand from my parents
- a baby picture of yours truly
This is most of the art that I own (20-25 pieces); it all needs to be spread across my apartment; and I don't want to spend any money (although I want to add a picture of my mom and other family members). So they won't end up in the configuration pictured. Right now everything is placed across the only stretch of open space I have in my studio. Because I'm an excellent starter but not a stellar finisher, I hope this "method" works to annoy myself into hanging everything onto the walls sooner rather than later.
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