Hachiko

It's a while ago that I started doing paintings of the people who have had a huge positive influence on my life, in no particular order. I started with Noam, then it was Kobe, and I have a few others ongoing. Today I did not paint people. Today I honor my childhood idol, Hachiko, whose statue I was fortunate to witness in Shibuya.  

I am not an insecure person, at least not in respect to painting, but I have postponed this series since forever. It never seemed like a good moment to start it, there was never a time when I felt completely "ready". And even when I know that I can technically execute these paintings, they still keep me a bit on edge, because they're so important to me and I want to be able to do them justice. 

I took the leap of faith and started them anyway. Yes, I would probably paint them better if I revisit them in a few years. It's the nature of the beast in this game, in any creative medium. We cannot wait a lifetime until we paint something, we'll never be able to finish anything if we wait for the perfect moment, because the perfect moment does not exist. We can only bring our meager contribution to the world, knowing that we paint ONE version out of infinite possibilities, accepting that it's the best we could do at this point in time and that we're allowed to improve upon anything in the years to come, should that desire arise. In the end, as the saying goes, no painting is ever finished, only abandoned.