ATSUITA 38x20” as it looked at the end of my painting day today
3:50 PM: atsuita is the name of a japanese robe from the middle edo period, which i’m borrowing as the title of this painting. this 38x20” piece of portrait linen was originally intended to be half of a new painting in two pieces hung side by side. initially, i lay them next to one another on my painting table and made some sweeping marks in bright colors, which were inspired by japanese robes from that period i had been loooking at.
so this morning, i decided to let hu 1 have a little rest, and began work on atsuita. the by now familiar walking figure in the blue plaid shirt has shown up, as well as a tip of the hat to diebenkorn in the form of a green triangle of color in the lower left. on the upper left is the half scraped over figure of a bather sitting on the rocks above piso yialia, a beach we used to frequent on the greek island of andros.