Kozy really likes this particular handmade washi paper she finds in her hometown, where paper has been made for nearly 1000 years. Each one with different pools of pastel color, and speckled with gold flecks that shimmer in the light.
After a long stretch this year of being focused on things besides painting (ceramics, ceramics exhibitions, learning to adult in Japan, farming, trying to figure out how to transition our business to being technically based here in Japan, etc), she set down to get back into painting mode to create some artworks for an exhibition at Giant Robot’s GR2 Gallery in Los Angeles called “Circles” that is on view now (and pretty great actually! So many talented artists, as is the norm for Giant Robot shows).
She based the paintings on a drawing of a massive school of #bunnyfish Dan made many years ago (it reminded us of our days living in a little 2 bedroom apartment in Santa Monica, CA😌 the waves of nostalgia when revisiting old artworks is intense!).
If you can’t get to the show in person, the artworks are available here:
GR2: Circles - Group Exhibition
Check it out!