Cranes

As I get ready to pack up and send the latest custom bag, I wonder why so few people select one of the crane motif prints to decorate their bags. I admit they are my weakness, and especially in the autumn when the skeins of migrating birds cross the sky and even at night one sometimes hears the calls of shorebirds high above (ok, not here, but when we lived in San Francisco...).

That's what prompted this haiku:

A drawer of cranes
Folded flat wave at their kinfolk
Oklahoma-bound

Welcome to the Website...

I am pretty happy with how easily this has come together as a website for Zanshin Art. I'm keeping the main website up for now but may eventually have the url come to here. If you have any specific feedback, email it to me at zanshinart@gmail.com
Meanwhile I am busy in the studio preparing a line of wider bags to meet the needs of jodo folks; these will be consigned to my good friends at Mugendo Budogu - great budo people selling budo gear of all kinds. Here are some of the prints I'll be decorating these bags with: