2005
9-panel painting
ink and acrylic on paper and wood

The title refers to a hotel that appears in two Haruki Murakami novels, but this work is not an illustration of either. Its structure references a Scandinavian postcard of a time-lapse arc of the midnight sun in 9 slivers, the sun mirrored in the sea below. The foreboding black ornamentation is a stylized version of the emblem of the Madonna Inn, a mysteriously odd California hotel. The 24 inset circle illustrations rise and set across the piece, mirroring one another.

dolphinhotel

dolphinhotel detail

dolphinhotel detail

dolphinhotel detail

dolphinhotel detail

dolphinhotel detail

dolphinhotel detail

dolphinhotel detail

dolphinhotel detail

dolphinhotel detail