This is a picture of Luke and Kaori’s home-office in Tokyo. (Luke, our older son, and Kaori, our daughter-in-law, own Knee High Media in Japan.) The mural was painted recently by HITOTZUKI, a collaboration of two of their friends, Kami and Sasu, who have painted murals throughout Japan and also in Europe.

The forms that Kami paints are inspired by his passion for skateboarding. Luke told me that when they were painting his house, Kami, in creating the design, would move his body as he might when skateboarding. It’s intriguing the way the light and dark curved paths, with Sasu’s flower-like designs drawing attention away from the path, soften and enhance the rectangular rigidity of the building, organically changing the structure into a painted sculpture.