Liberation from Fighting

The finished ink paintings, and the years I could not explain what I was doing. Frustration became depression, I stopped painting, and I began burning the work to be rid of an idea that seemed pointless beside the status quo.

I was teaching children to fight and rewarding them for it, and I could not answer why. These sketches come from the years I spent asking what the medium of martial arts is, and finding that the answer was fighting itself.