Blue Lotus, Japan by Tadayuki Naito, Contemporary Japanese Color Photography Celebrity The “red number” NASA prints

The “red number” NASA prints were made in Houston are the only prints with red numbers

The Acrylic and oil pastel diptych is sewn with white thread and mounted on archival board

and AD Spain

5" gelatin silver print

Blue Lotus, Japan by Tadayuki Naito, Contemporary Japanese Color Photography Celebrity The “red number” NASA printsBlue Lotus, 2003 is a contemporary color photograph by Japanese artist Tadayuki Naito. Naito created a series on the blue lotus, a flower of peace and hope. The artists desire was to express the intrinsically Japanese aesthetic of embodiment of the perfection of wisdom. The blue lotus symbolizes victory of the spirit over the senses, intelligence, wisdom, and ultimately knowledge. The archival pigment print on Hahnemule Fine Art paper is hand signed