The Five Dollar Fortune
24x24” / Maple Frame with Cherry inlay / oil on panel
A sly nod to the merging of east and west. . . starting with a fortune cookie that you only receive in Asian/Eastern restaurants in the states but which is most certainly a Western creation.
A painting that is inspired by the idea of how luck is all in one’s perspective.
A $5 bill and the number 7 would both be “lucky” in the eyes of someone with a western background, but become more complicated as you move into many eastern philosophies.
Five: can represent the five elements, or can be the biblical symbol of Jesus (five wounds of the crucifixion) but also can be seen as a number in constant flux (unstable) in some Eastern philosophies as well as sounding like the word for crying or whimpering in Chinese making it unlucky.
Seven: The seven deadly sins. . . . in China it it the number of The Ghost Month when the spirits of the dead come back to visit the living and where families burn “ghost money” to insure their ancestors are comfortable in the afterlife . . . . break a mirror seven years of bad luck… In Dante’s inferno there where seven levels of purgatory.. . on and on it goes.
24x24” / Maple Frame with Cherry inlay / oil on panel
A sly nod to the merging of east and west. . . starting with a fortune cookie that you only receive in Asian/Eastern restaurants in the states but which is most certainly a Western creation.
A painting that is inspired by the idea of how luck is all in one’s perspective.
A $5 bill and the number 7 would both be “lucky” in the eyes of someone with a western background, but become more complicated as you move into many eastern philosophies.
Five: can represent the five elements, or can be the biblical symbol of Jesus (five wounds of the crucifixion) but also can be seen as a number in constant flux (unstable) in some Eastern philosophies as well as sounding like the word for crying or whimpering in Chinese making it unlucky.
Seven: The seven deadly sins. . . . in China it it the number of The Ghost Month when the spirits of the dead come back to visit the living and where families burn “ghost money” to insure their ancestors are comfortable in the afterlife . . . . break a mirror seven years of bad luck… In Dante’s inferno there where seven levels of purgatory.. . on and on it goes.
24x24” / Maple Frame with Cherry inlay / oil on panel
A sly nod to the merging of east and west. . . starting with a fortune cookie that you only receive in Asian/Eastern restaurants in the states but which is most certainly a Western creation.
A painting that is inspired by the idea of how luck is all in one’s perspective.
A $5 bill and the number 7 would both be “lucky” in the eyes of someone with a western background, but become more complicated as you move into many eastern philosophies.
Five: can represent the five elements, or can be the biblical symbol of Jesus (five wounds of the crucifixion) but also can be seen as a number in constant flux (unstable) in some Eastern philosophies as well as sounding like the word for crying or whimpering in Chinese making it unlucky.
Seven: The seven deadly sins. . . . in China it it the number of The Ghost Month when the spirits of the dead come back to visit the living and where families burn “ghost money” to insure their ancestors are comfortable in the afterlife . . . . break a mirror seven years of bad luck… In Dante’s inferno there where seven levels of purgatory.. . on and on it goes.