Gallery Exhibitions In 1998 I held my first one-week gallery exhibition in Kyoto and then Tokyo. The Kyoto leg was held at Gallery To-bee (pronounced Towbay) and the Tokyo leg at Gallery Kaya. Both venues introduced my first sculptural efforts - a three-piece series of a close friend comprising figurative & abstract busts and a two-piece figurative & abstract series of another friend together with several large wheel-thrown vessels and horary (eto) animal figurines. The busts were developed with the loose theme of bringing out the unseen side of human nature - in other words, its secrets - tangible and intangible. Here, I used a mixture of glaze painting, airbrushing, splattering and dipping approaches to produce surreal countenances on some of the pieces while under-and-overglazing other pieces with tattoos based on body ones usually sported by gangsters but hidden from sight by clothing. In 2000 I held my second exhibition at the Tsuta Salon in Tokyo concentrating solely on sculptures of a theatre actress (three-piece series), an architect (two-piece series), classical guitarist (two-piece series) and radio DJ (one-piece series). For this exhibition, I carried on the theme of tattooing not only in the painting mode but also in a carving mode resembling a mixture of Polynesian tattooing and marble latticing seen in magnificent buildings in India, and yet of my own design. The central piece of the show was a male torso sculpted as a personal tribute to Egon Schiele, an artist that inspires me so very, very much.