Hokusai-Sensei

An elderly bald man sits cross-legged, gripping a paintbrush overhead, dressed in a blue robe layered under an orange-and-blue checked kimono; a shishi lion figure crouches at his lower right and a speech-bubble of Japanese text with small figural sketches floats above him. The composition is collaged directly over sheets of Japanese newspaper text, with a black-and-gold diamond-patterned border framing the scene and a red seal stamped in the lower left. Yuki Ideguchi's 2017 mixed-media work "Hokusai-Sensei" combines newspaper, gesso, ink stick, acrylic, and spray paint in this vertical panel.