TERUKO YOKOI
Poppies, 1982
Egg tempera and silver crayon on paper
18 3/8 x 24 7/8 in. / 46.6 x 63.2 cm
Signed and dated twice
(yocol 0573)
I have known HINAGESHI, which is the Japanese name for field poppies, since the days of my childhood, and have always been attracted to its sound. The first time, when I saw them under the sky of Provence, I thought they were scarlet butterflies, playing cheerfully on the hillside, a hazy brown barley field, as their favorite playground . . . I also love the way they tuck and curl themselves up in the middle of the afternoon, and fall asleep swiftly far before the sun has set.
HINAGESHI by Teruko Yokoi, 1981, 16 pages
