A LOST STATION ON THE TOKAIDO

64K, 720 x 560, 1983. Erasable crayon, by Chris Wayan .


A tribute to Hiroshige's famous series of moonlit landscape prints of the lonely roads of old Japan, "53 Stations on the Tokaido".

Okay, it's more a fried egg than a moon--don't be that way.


Crayon in vaguely Hiroshige style of wavelike hill under the moon

Months later, I looked again at that grassy hill shaped like a surging wave and saw it as hair. And the hills became a body and...


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