"…the views I favour are the grey mists, the rain-obscured islands and the clouds that hide the details. However much we desire order and clarity in all the details of our lives, there are always unexpected events that cloud and change our course. Life is ragged. The typical weather of the coast is like that, just enough detail to make it interesting but not so clear as to be banal or overwhelming. It can be a metaphor for life.'"
- Takao Tanabe, in an artist's statement of Oct. 12, 1999

One of my inspirations wrote this. I've always wanted to meet the artist, but he must be 81 by now.