Taipei Rai, 2025, gouache on paper, 4.5 x 5 in. / 11.43 x 12.7 cm.

Taipei Rai, David R. Sterry, 2025, gouache on paper, 4.5 x 5 in. / 11.43 x 12.7 cm.

Waking early one jet lagged morning in Taipei, I got to work attempting to capture the greenbelt just outside the balcony. Improvised a setup for my first surrealist landscape in gouache and painted an imagined Rai stone replacing a building.