"Rose 1," 15" x 20."

I painted these watercolors while living in San Francisco and Tokyo.  Living in Japan, a country whose language I could not read or understand was jarring and disorienting at first. I began painting in forms whose meaning I did not understand.  I began to be comfortable in being at a loss.  I let my unconscious take over. 

The absolute freedom that watercolors afford uplifts me.  Color, unbridled color, carries emotion diligently and adroitly.  Water, like a strong buffalo, carries the unconscious on it.  From water, the world emerges.  From water, land rises and is made greener.  Water breathes.  Color gives us our humanity.  When painting, I let the medium take over and am submerged in its own thinking.

                             Mong-Lan, Oct 2004.

"Green & Red Rain"

12" x 16"

"Typhoon"

12" x 16"

"Interior"

15" x 20"

"Eyes"

15" x 20"

"Thinking"

15" x 20"

"Sun in Blue"

15" x 20"

"Blues Rain", 12" x 16"

"Tulips 1"

12" x 16"

"Tokyo Heights", 12" x 16"

(below)

"Red Sun"

15" x 20"

"Rose 2", 15" x 20"