It was clear that the number of people who came to hear Gen's discussion and Q&A session at Sara Japanese Pottery was far beyond our expectations. He carefully explained how his own artistry, restoration work, and the foundations of lacquer ware all come together.
The Lacquer Panels are his original pieces that debuted at this event.
Just the other day, I went to his workshop in Queens, New York, and at the time the two panels were only covered in the red and black backgrounds. He told me he planned to paint a gerbera on the panels, and showed me the flower he designed on his computer.
"A few days ago, I bought a beautiful gerbera at the farmer's market, so I used that for the design." On the kitchen table, there was a gerbera arrangement.
The gerbera is lacquered in a milk tea color, coated with multiple layers of deep gray. A single stem is painted on a deeply saturated red lacquer panel, and another single stem is painted in a customary black lacquer panel.
The gerbera on the red panel faces up and at an angle with one flower petal in gold as an accent. The black panel has a gerbera that casts its face downward with one gold flower petal that has fallen.
With this composition, the raised lacquer flower against the exquisite contrast of the rich and elegant background colors, red and black, it seems that I am not alone in drawing upon the feelings of "aspiration" and "isolation".
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