Recollected on this early morning, painting track                     
        
 
         
               
Imagery of the landscape of his new home.
Artist's clairvoyant experience of nature.
 
Shared with University of California students.
Obata began teaching at Berkeley in 1932.
Hard to believe that
along with thousands of other Japanese Americans,
he was imprisoned in 1942.
But that is what happened.
[
Not the end of the story]