These are the words that accompany the Bamboo that I give you today. Our life is our decision; Let's maintain a happy attitude towards life.

The first thing we must do when we prepare a painting is to organize our materials to use, this allows our mind to be centered: Painting and the art of Chinese Calligraphy are characterized by being meditations in movement, where our mind, body and spirit are in harmony in conjunction to perform the work. The materials that I used to make this bamboo were:

Now if we start with bamboo making. The first step was to elaborate the trunk and a small branch in its lower part.

After this, I made other branches and the leaves of the bamboo, alternating the sizes of the brushes and everything with black Chinese ink.

I made the poem JOY OF LIVING in ideograms (Chinese letters).

I signed my work and stamped my personal seal.

Thank you very much for your time and for valuing my art,
Greetings with affection,
Joan Martínez.