This picture comes from a painting completed sometime last year. Using old material can be a fruitful. It is painted over a faint winter landscape depicting moonlight shining over a frozen bay covered with fresh snow that fell all day and all night during the 12th day of Christmas. For some reason the scene of fresh snow and barred passage brought to my mind the story of the young Abe no Nakamaro, poet and timekeeper, who never returned to his homeland. But that's all gone now.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
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