MATERIAL: MDF BOARD, SIZE: 120 CM X 110 CM, MEDIUM: ACRYLIC COLOURS
 
IT'S A PAINTING IN WHICH TOMAS HAD AN INTUITION TO REPREZENT JAPANESE CULTURE AND TIGER ANIMALS IN ONE MEANING TOGETHER.
 
THE JAPANESE SIGN LETTER MEANS "TIGER" AND AS AN AUTHOR I FEEL TO EXPRESS MARTIAL ARTS, INTEGRITY OF WARRIOR, SAMURAI CODEX AND A BUSHIDO INFLUENCE ON ME WHEN I STUDIED SHOTOKAN KARATE, WHICH MY FATHER TRAINED ME SINCE MY CHILDHOOD.
 
SHOTOKAN KARATE WHICH IS LINKED TO TIGER ANIMAL SYMBOL, AN AGGRESSION EXPRESSED BY BLOOD STAINS IS QUITE OBVIOUS, YET THE PAINTING IS IN CONCEPT OF BALANCE BETWEEN "YIN YANG" WITHIN BUDHIST PHILOSOPHY.
 
WHAT YOU ACTUALLY SEE AND WHAT I CAPTURED IN THIS 
PIECE OF ART IS MERELY EXOTIC, ETHNIC AND ALSO A MODERN ABSTRACT EXPRESSION OF EASTERN CULTURES, THEIR CHARACTERISTIC MARTIAL ART AND THEIR SYMBOLISMS.