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While preparing for the Oni Landscape show I stayed in the mountains of western Japan, studying ceramics with John Dix and Taihei Sugiyama in the afternoons and drawing at night. Though the landscape was stunning, I was living in a former barn that had been converted into a quaint, but still pest-infested guesthouse. I had no real contact with the outside world to speak of and started to make sketches of my new companions.
The drawings are more of an amalgamation than studies of specific insects. Using the same technique as my recent Oni drawings I used regularly repeating bold shapes to hold together a framework of wildly sketched lines to make each individual.