Heroes Both Real And Imaginary

As a product of conditions varied and elusive- elements, ancestors, cinema, literature, history, plants, sun , water, friendship, enmity- my heroes are both real and imaginary (imagined).



















Japanese warriors
indigenous warriors
artists
characters in films and books
historical figures that I acknowledge as ancestors
writers
survivors
combatants
athletes
people who crossed to the other side
strangers in books, magazines, stories and legends who maybe are not really strangers.

Somehow out of these threads I continue to discover who it is that I am. I live in a mythology so personal that I wonder if anyone else can possibly make sense of it all.