Japan

Click here to view this artwork, Eriashi | Japan, and its currently available sizes. Eriashi | Japan With precision, the aspiring geisha, known as a maiko, meticulously practices the iconic makeup application, including the sacred ritual of drawing eriashi (neck lines), the two vertical lines drawn that leave the nape of the neck exposed symbolizing not [...]

Click here to view this artwork, Whispers of Spring | Japan, and its currently available sizes. Whispers of Spring | Japan When I came across this image when editing work from my recent trip to Japan, I first thought of porcelain. Then, I remembered their humanness when seeing these young women in the flesh, in real life. These [...]

Click here to view this artwork, Sakura's Passage | Japan, and its currently available sizes. Sakura's Passage | Japan I traveled in early April to Japan with one primary purpose. I was eager to document the Sakura blossoms that arrive each spring and are widely—and wildly—celebrated in the country. Although these glorious blossoms appear at about [...]