Sama

Works in Jan’s Totems series present icons, objects, and scenes as metaphors for reflection on current events and themes relevant to contemporary living, and his Colorfields are richly-saturated abstract-expressions that characterize his emotional response to events going on around him, and in the contemporary world

Sama was a sheer exploration of material that developed into a reference to the Japanese term for honorific-of-the-honorific, or the ‘most-honored,’ -sama.