ORCHID ISLAND I & II

Painting: ink on rice paper – 135x70cm

A ritual:

Every year at down

men climb the rocks down to the beach

wearing loincloths, silver hats and breastplates...

...One has brought a chicken,

the others gather around him...

...Facing the ocean,

the man waves the chicken in the air,

tracing a circle, like the sun coming out...

...Then he slits the chicken's throat.