いってきます (I'll Go and Come Back) oil painting and painted right up to

and painted right up to the end of his life

meaning "I'm home" in Japanese

Reproduction of original oil on canvas painting from the Tadaima collection

wired to hang

SIZE: 16"x12"x1

いってきます (I'll Go and Come Back) oil painting and painted right up to" (I'll Go and Come Back)" is part of the Daburu collection, a partnered exhibition with my friend and fellow Japanese American artist Marie Okuma Johnston at Gallery 110. This collection explores our bicultural identities and experiences between the United States and Japan. Daburu is the Japanese hepburn spelling of double, a rising identity of mixed race Japanese. Traditionally, mixed race Japanese have been called hafu or half, which only places