Painting
Pool to Lake, Kasumigaura (Everybody Wants to Rule the World)
oil on canvas
36 x 40 inch | 2025-2026
How a grandmother in Japan in the 60s and a granddaughter in the US in the 2020s both learned to swim through local swim programs for kids.
How I was swimming before the pandemic and when I was pregnant with my first daughter. When I joined a summer lap swim program at the Hamilton Fish Pool for three of those years. When on most nights in August around 7pm, I swam laps and watched the sun go down and felt the summer light so unreal. The last summer while a new human grew inside.
How in August 2024, I made the first sketches for this painting while the idea was fresh in my mind. How I started working on other paintings and started this one on canvas the following year in May 2025. Shortcut to now June 2026 how it's finally done.