As a child I had a private tutor Miss Lee, Un Woo, a daughter of a prominent physician in Korea and an up and coming Oriental Art painter in Seoul. Not very proficient in Chinese characters, law, Confucius ethics and Oriental Art at the time I think the only thing I got out of those lessons back in Korea was the fundamentals of abstract art which I think is grounded on the same principle as Chinese characters which are essentially derived from simplified drawings and pictures. In this photo you can get a taste of how one American, Ms. Padilla, tied in the traditional disciplined art and ethics of Northeast Asian calligraphy with Western Modern Abstract Pop Art where composition and form are reduced to lines, curves and shades to embody the same ideals of ethics and discipline in art form. I had the fortune of viewing this gallery in the Pleasantville Public Library where my mother also took part. Photo of mother and daughter at the gallery attached. During the Kaen demonstration on 5/17/08 by Yoshiko Katsumi, she wrote a poem "Her hair flurried in the wind" for my keepsake.