Love #2 Canvas Print

A graphic copper icon with the Chinese character for "love" (Ai) engraved on jade in its center. Each of four hands hold a lotus blossom, signifying the highest level of enlightenment.

July 1st, 2019, tens of thousands of protesters in Hong Kong were also peacefully marching on the 22nd anniversary of the former colony's handover from Britain to China. July 1 has become an annual day of pro-democracy protests.

This original icon is dedicated to the hope that one day a New World Order will arise, it will be a land where calm rules over chaos, and only words of love are spoken.

Is this only make-believe?

I've lived in Hawaii since 2002, 1200 feet above sea level, on the small rural island of Moloka'i. It is very quiet here, with only about 7,400 residents. I appreciate the quiet life after spending 35 years as a commercial illustrator, senior art director and design director for major advertising agencies and design studios in Chicago, San Francisco and Palo Alto California. I've always loved cooking. In 2002 that love led me to a degree in the Culinary Arts just before moving to Hawaii. Since then I designed and built a house, worked in local restaurants, self-published three cookbooks, and took up photography as a hobby. Now retired, I spend most of my time developing recipes and photographing them, plus researching and writing...