Culture Clash

I was trying to evoke the atmosphere of a raw and cloudy late afternoon in December as I walked through the Asakusa district in Tokyo, Japan, looking in shop windows. This piece is composed from two cyanotype photos, exactly the same, of product wrappers as seen through a shop window. I liked their shapes. I liked the calligraphy...but had no idea what the calligraphy said, hence the title of the piece. One cyanotype is the background. A square was cut from the center of the second cyanotype and it was embellished with appliquéd shapes of silk organza and an embroidered grid. The square was then machine appliquéd on the background cyanotype.