Today, the second of the new year, I spent insulating pipes to and from our tankless water heater in preparation of arctic air swooping in on Tennessee and hanging an Okinawa fabric on my study wall:
It’s about three feet long and the floral motif is a gettō, the leaves of which are used to wrap food offerings at graves. I also have some nice incense made from crushed gettō. This is the hanging I mentioned in a previous post while I was in Okinawa. I took me a lot of time to pick it out and I didn’t mind paying about $250 for it. The colors and motif are perfect for my study. It also has the distinction of being the first thing we’ve hung that required making a hole in the pristine wall. I have a couple other spots where I’d like to hang small pictures, but have no idea what. In the meantime I’ll enjoy the gettō above the iMac and perhaps burn some incense to make the scene complete.
Very nice piece.