Abalcabal Hanga - The Concept

I put the wood block on a table and arranged kimono coasters given to me by Yoshiaki around it. I thought of the kimono coasters as being the artists circling around a common idea. I thought about all the ABAD artists and how a common project and theme has brought us together. I thought of the theme, not so much as death, but as the energy of life, and how it radiates from a point outside ourselves somehow coming through us into the material world. I thought of the sun, and a diagonal line or 'belt' moving towards the material world, as if the kimono belt were the creative energy of the artist moving into the physical realm, the green earth. Then I thought, "abalcabal is fluxus and visually speaking, if it's mail art in the fluxus spirit, I need to throw in some collage", (my thought, NOT A LITERAL ONE- PLEASE) - just "fluxus likes collage" and "hanga likes chine colle", so therefore, this print needs color added using chine colle instead of multiple printing blocks.