This has been the most complex project I have created to date. It took over a year to complete. It evolved with many changes along the way. I will try to layout the history of this painting "Hands Across Time & Space".

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I learn a lot along the way. If I had to do it over, yes I would make different choices. But I can't change history. It is what it is. I am very pleased how this invites the viewer to think. It tests their knowledge of the world. Many times they learn something new. I'm always learning myself.

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Many ideas never made all the way to the end. I would paint them and then decide that I would remove them because of copyright issues.

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Additionally I redid the raising of the flag of iwa jiam