Made in Los Cabos on 7 August 2025 

Woke up at 7am, call with Papi. He is very excited about club renovation. Ton and Ged are in Koh Samui visiting clinic there and prépare for WET Pool Party Fullmoon in Koh PhaNgan. Happy to see family working together. It's not so hot today in Los Cabos, only 28°c. 

After the call with Bhavish about quotation of renovation, we went to swim, Lorenz did his 26 length and I went to the beach to be with the big waves of Los Cabos. It's really enormous and intimidating, with the black flags on the beach I didn't want to go too close to the waves.

Had breakfast then decided to try to finish the Cat Man, then somehow Daibutsu came across my mind, maybe I was afraid for my life to be destroyed and taken away by the big waves, and maybe because Kamakura Daibutsu...built with wood in 1243, destroyed by the storm in 1248 the whole hall was gone, so built again in Bronze in 1252. Another storm hit in 1334 and rebuilt, the hall destroyed again by another storm in 1369 but the buddha remain still. 20 September 1498, tsunami hit after Nankai earthquake and the hall was destroyed completely neve rebuilt again, since then he sit in the open air, uncovered in the open. He didn't want to be hidden.  1923, the great Kanto earthquake hit destroying the base of the statue and fixed in 1925 and then 1960-61, some works were done at the neck to prevent destruction from earthquake.

How many earthquakes had he been through? How many tsunami hit him? He's not going anywhere. 

Not to mention that this greco-buddhist art reflects how the world connected from Europe to Japan via silk road and maritime silk road where culture are passed on, cherished, shared and exchanged.

This is the second painting of Kamakura daibutsu I have made. The first one that I made during my teenage years, I don't know where it is. I moved around a lot and I really lost so many artworks LOL 😆 

First class trip with Lorenz.