“When we pray, we pray for everything, family, plants, and I feel like those birds are messengers of those prayers,” he says. “And the corn, it represents growth and posterity. We all go through different cycles of life like corn.”Corn is a deciding part of Ishii’s art and life. A good harvest is the corn showing itself, the result of hard work and cultivating his connection to the earth and his heritage, he said. “Getting my field was a big eye opener for me and helped me develop as a person as well as my style of art,” Ishii says.

Source: Daily Sun August 28, 2020 22:52 UTC