Oriri is the origin of the word ‘orient’.  It means ‘to rise’.

I was going to include a joke about what they say when Bobby O’leary goes to Japan but that would be in bad taste.

The Samurai, after a grueling practice would fall to his knees before a blank canvass and the perfect outflowing embodiment of that practice would appear in an instant on the canvass.

I entitled this piece ‘Oriri’ because this was one of those moments.  I’m not a Samurai, but I can push myself to a limit and allow transcendence followed by the expression.  This painting took me less than 3 minutes to complete.  It is the embodiment of our inner struggle between our past self-image and our future one.  We must overcome these limits to rise.