#artistic-influence

#artistic-influence

Birds sing in the trees, monkeys swing from branch to branch, snakes slither below, and a hummingbird has just built her nest when, all of a sudden, fire breaks out. The Littlest Drop is Sascha Alper's debut children's book, based on a parable from the Indigenous Quechua people of South America. In Alper's adaptation, all of the animals flee to the river - except the hummingbird, who goes to get one little drop of water, because that's all she can carry.

Artist Xenia Gray explores theme of unexpressed feelings in her mixed media art, utilizing oil, acrylic, and charcoal to convey depth and emotion.

Mr. Shinya Takahashi, general manager at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, requested my interpretation of the painting for my solo show there last year. When I was producing this work, I realised anew what I had thought when I was young, namely that Matabei, a 17th-century painter, had the same genes as Katsuhiro Otomo, a manga artist and film director.