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Politics aside, his paintings draw you in with their layered mixture of techniques and themes. The conscious and subconscious are consistently present on his canvases. Oil paint mingles with graffiti, serpents fly in the air, and buffalos appear on basketball courts. Okamura usually enlists his friends to strike a pose for his creative concepts, and thus begins his nightly dance with the brushes. He considers painting to be his form of daily meditation, as well as his labour of love.
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