meowkami
email: k.meowkami@gmail.com
the recipe for meowkami, cake

haphazardly combine:
1 Japanese American with an identity crisis [I mean born on Pearl Harbor day]
9 pints of sansei samurai stock  [reserve some for bone marrow donation]
3 shots of imported ninja extract
1/4 cup curious kitty
3/4 cup wise monkey
90 pounds cold pressed drawing deviant
20 pounds inked printmaking junkie
32 ounces acrylic alchemist
1 platter endangered sushi chef
3.4 liter speed racer
8/8 meter taiko drummer
3 bookworms
1 bound knife fetish

saturate with:
decades of Japanese arts & culture [aged and popped]
imperishable childlike humor [preferably  facetiously fermented]
perpetual artist admiration [high, low, and superflat varieties]

agitate:
5 years honorably serving time as a Sun Devil stalking a prized Bachelor

aerate:
1/2 year frolicking freely around Sin City
1 year of running amuk under the Space Needle's gaze

let stand 34 years baking in the Litterbox [aka Phoenix] to stew in self amusement [cracking up will occur]
apply icing by  smirks, snickers, and snorts


While you're here check out these artistic endeavors I'm proud to have gotten my paws into...
the art of keiko murakami
July 2006...I was at Vermillion Studio painting a 9' x 12' backdrop for photographer Mr. G... who was shooting the cover for the  New Times Best of Phoenix 2006 issue. You can see my handiwork nearly obscured by the beautiful naked girl...but that's ok cause I got to babysit the pythons used for the shoot!
April 2006...the Molten Brothers held the first annual Deck show at the Icehouse in Phoenix. This invitational only skate deck exhibition was my first real gallery showing! Check out the photo and interview in the New Times review
March 2005...I created and helped Paint on Pottery install an mosaic of the Arizona Diamondbacks logo in the pool pavilion area [outfield wall right center] at Bank One Ballpark [then named Chase Field].
Winter break 2001...I did some modeling for highly recognized and internationally known artist Pachi who painted 3 paintings of me. And no, you don't get to see the third one here.

"A Tragic Scene" book release party
raphic representation of family crest: 2 hawk feathers encased in a diamond painted on carbon fiber
In 2008 I created over 500 illustrations for Volume 1 of Beginning Japanese: Your Pathway to Dynamic Language Acquisition and its accompanying workbook.  Another artist did the cover illustration...you'll have to buy a copy and teach yourself Japanese to see what  I got away with-I mean to see what I drew for the vocabulary words.
December 2010...my custom OMI shared a spot on the wall among hundreds of others created by established and emerging artists for Munky King's OMI Show
"candle light" by Pachi
"Lantern Light" by Pachi
working on Diamondback mosiac at Chase Field
Diamondback logo mosiac close up
keiko with "assuming position 4 after blowing 3" painted for the DECK show
keiko with "utamaro's wasn't doing it for me" etching at Studio 102 for Printed Matter 6
In 2003 during my time at ASU I had work shown in two juried shows in downtown Phoenix.  A ceramic/print piece in Printed Matter 4 @ Studio 108 in May....and the etching "Utamaro's wasn't doing it for me"  in Printed Matter 6 @ Studio 102 in December.
Phoenix New Times 2006 Best of Phoenix cover
backdrop keiko painted for New Times cover
keiko babysitting python
"master niku" custom OMI
June 2010...I was invited by author Slade Vegas to show my art at Place Gallery in Las Vegas during the book release party for "A Tragic Scene."  That's right, no pictures because you know what happens in Vegas...