Working on the shapes, form and the shading. Crating highlights with the light areas within the marshes and having the ripples in the open waterways allows my work to vibrate into being. Starting with a blank piece of paper, a fresh lotus flower and ink, my artwork commences with but one image from a cut lotus stem, then continues into hundreds and thousands of indelible marks. The shading and the density of these impressions produce undulating patterns. A monochrome pointillism The result is a monochromatic rebirth of embossed stamps varying in hue and intensity, and paintings of austere beauty. Many of my paintings reflect the waterways, rivers and deltas of South East Asia, and I return regularly to this theme. For this is the life blood of a country bestowed with monsoonal rains and with floods to enrich its soils and fisheries biannually, then left to parch for the remainder of the year. This work was a series of three paintings entitled 17793. <BR>They were the first works upon returning to Cambodia after fleeing our to covid.