Title: Elf Prince

Date Created: June 2021

Size (inches): 42H x 36W

Media: Micron Pens, and Colored Pencils

Elf Prince.
This is an old piece in my life, done when I was 19 visiting my Mother in Dallas. I lost track of it, but my Mom, as Mom’s will, did not. Returning years later I discovered it framed and on display, she was a big
fan, and an artist herself. She is gone now, and I have her painted portrait of me she did when I was 3yrs old in Japan to remember and connect with her by. It is a straightforward line drawing done in ballpoint pen, and in one go. I am fond of this piece in the same way as the Egyptian Pupil and for the same reason it is so pure. I enjoy the symmetry in the face and the abstraction at the eyebrows, nose and cheek. It has always invoked to me my higher self, my noble self to aspire to. I am a Tolkien fan and grew up with his books in junior high, way back when. And the elves in Tolkien always struck me as man elevated to immortality and his noblest aspects. Hence the title, “Elf Prince.”