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A Return to my Kohaku Series.
The idea for the Kohaku begun in January 2013 while sitting with my friend, the poet Jack McCarthy while he was on his death bed. One of the things we talked about was eastern philosophy. I mentioned I was fascinated by the use of red and white in Japanese architecture. The combination of red and white has its own color combination name: Kohaku. When used independently of each other red or white have their own names). I find this combination meditative, which is the goal of Japanese architects.
The red compels one's eyes to travel inward and through the subject of the painting. This I hope, creates a quiet and meditative experience.
I see this as a fusion between east and west.
During 2014 and 2015 I painted 60 or 70 Kohaku. And another 30+ Scattered between 2016 and 2021. It has probably been my most popular series in terms of comments and sales. Of the 118 have painted so far, I believe I have sold 30+.
I'm glad you are embracing them.
I have and plan to continue my more emotional paintings. Face, hands, and body posture speak to the human condition.
The coming storm #1
$150
The coming storm #2.
$150
The Cosmic Dance
$300
Entering the Vortex.
$300
How the world appeared after the White Rabbit drank the Hatter's tea.
$300
The red circle.
$300
The green circle.
$300
The fading red circle.
$300
Blue within red within collapsing brown circle.
$300
Circles in the shadow of an eclipse.
$300
The slow unraveling of the blue circle.
$300
A confluence of circles.
$300
A world without circles.
$300
Intersecting lines in a land of fracturing circles.
$300
A hint of blue in a land of diminishing circles.
$300
Breaching out of the swirling blue into the cosmos filled with circles collapsing into odd shaped ovals.
$300
Occilation © 2024, By Duane Kirby Jensen 9 x 12, ink on Yupo Medium
$300
Fractured Stone
$300
Spiraling
$300
Fraying pathways
$300
The shimmer of fractured mica.
$300
Four planets of the diamond.
$300
When longitude and latitude lines begin to collapse.
$300
Universal interaction.
$300
Still life without woodpecker on the Lake Metan trail.
$125
Desperate hours
$150
Standing next to Magritte.
$150
Slow disintergration of Cedar in Lake Metan.
$175
Reflections in murky waters
$300
Swimming in a yellow lake
$150
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