PRISCILLA OTANI
Full Moon
Paper and Acrylic on Canvas
30″ x 24″
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Priscilla Otani is a mixed media artist, working with paint, paper and objects. She is also the President of National Women’s Caucus for Art and co-owner of Arc Studios & Gallery. As a San Francisco-based artist, her works have been selected in various exhibitions including Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, Hidden Cities, Control, Banned & Recovered, and Telling Tales. Her work, Water Baby, is based on the mizuko jizo (literally, “water baby” bodhisattva) statues found in the Buddhist temples in Suma and Mt. Koya. Jizos represent the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha, known in Japan as the guardian of children who died before their parents. They are associated with guarding the souls of unborn children – children lost to miscarriage or abortion. With abortions being commonplace, money is donated anonymously for their statues by women to ease their guilt. “I tried to capture the pathos of both the anonymous women and their lost babies in this work.”