Beneath the Potato Leaves
Charcoal, acrylic, paper on wood panel
18” x 24”
Charcoal, acrylic, paper on wood panel
18” x 24”
Takeshi Harazaki was born in 1941 in a small city in Shizuoka, Japan. He remembers hiding among potato plants with his grandmother when he was about three years old. With no shelters nearby, they lay flat on the ground as air raid sirens blared overhead. What remains most vivid in his memory is the view through the leaves; dozens of airplanes flying overhead on their way to bomb the larger cities.
