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$4,200.00
Size
31" x 44"
Medium
Oil and paint marker on prepared paper
Itoshima, walking haloed in the pale glow of timber bamboo, a light steady clacking in response to breeze, emerging through dense foliage to encounter numberless temple and shrine in anonymous well tended decline. Takeo, the waters, the ancient onsen, soaking late nights, in silent company, gentle melting snow. Two months wandering Kyushu, Japan. Floating, lost, spirit like by day, without language or connection, the bright white din of overwhelming malls, a lullaby to the sleepwalk chaos of consumerism… then back to the quiet intimidation of the studio interrupted only by midnight Shinkansen. This piece: a journal to this time.
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Robert MossSaltspring Island, BC
Robert Moss (b.1964, Blackpool, UK) is a Salt Spring Island visual artist, designer, and furniture maker. Mostly selftaught, he attended two summer semesters at Otis Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, in the early 1980’s. He has participated in numerous group shows over the years, including a solo show at Fault Line Projects Gallery, Salt Spring Island, BC (2018) and has been selected as a finalist in two of the previous Parallel Art Shows. Other local group shows include Arts Council Spring Show (2022); “Little Pockets of Defiant Beauty” at ArtSpring Gallery (2023); and, most recently, “The Figurative,” a group show at Fortune Gallery, Victoria, BC (2023).