Jasmine tea with okapi

Jasmine Tea With Okapi

Piece description from the artist

A fun story showing an Okapi wandering into a tea house at night, and a geisha serving him some Jasmine tea. The okapi seems smitten with the geisha serving him, though the geisha seem a bit unsure. He has probably been to this tea house before, most likely has a crush on this particular geisha. She knows this and seems a little uneasy that we have wandered in and are viewing the unorthodox relationship between the two. Yellow butterflies are flying in through the window and partaking in the spilt tea on the table, gathering nectar from the wild cherry blossoms in the geisha's hair. This idea of the yellow butterflies is influenced from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book 100 Years of Solitude. The hanging lamp forms an eye, drowsily staring back at the viewer. The situation created by this scenario, combined with the blue-night milieu, nature with her wild cherry blossoms, yellow butterflies and anthropomorphic okapi, gives birth to a conscious; a situational conscious whose eye flows through the hanging lamp and stares back at the viewer with an ancient ambivalence.

Other works by Skip Myers

About Skip Myers

Austin, TX

The artwork of Skip Myers explores the world of dreams, symbolism, mythology, various religious belief systems, the human condition and our shared collective consciousness with all sentient beings. One art critic described him as an oneironaut, or one who explores alternative realities. These works are strongly influenced by personal stories, events from life painted on canvas, filtered through a process of organic abstraction and emotion, and built with vivid color and esoteric symbols.

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