"Samurai Cutting Through the Edge of Outer Space"

This ink drawing was created one year ago; finished on 17 January 2022. The title "Samurai Cutting Through the Edge of Outer Space" came to me just like the drawing itself, out of the ether (space?). I was reading some Science Fiction stories by Clifford D. Simak at the time which may have influenced me slightly, though this work is probably more abstract.

Out of my “abstract” drawings, this one remains one of my favorites.

The figure is concealed in amply decorated robes, running swiftly (feet widely outstretched) through the Universe (depicted in part by the meteor showers, planets, and moons with craters showing through in the “background”); eyes peering intensely through a masked, hooded head (upper right); the now hidden sword, having cut through the edge of Space revealing the white light (the white paper) behind all the deep darkness of Space.

This was a fun drawing that started with thin lines, then spaces filled with various patterns and designs, some borrowed from previous Artworks.

That’s just what I see.