Those red shoes were placed by a suitcase that took them to Italy, a small photos of his Mother ,Odai making Art with him. Perhaps it was the spirit of an Art Mama who summoned the hail that fell ferociously on the opening day of the exhibition, it cascaded down streets and created waterfalls in the thunder and lightening.

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This weather shook the Sugarloaf and other hills around the Seaside town and threatened to rain off lunch for Arty Grandmothers scheduled for that afternoon. Despite these conditions the intrepid and curious did arrive and proceeded to first make an installation by collectively emptying out handbags, while discussing how many Grandchildren they had.  Much to the amusement of the staff. who had seen all types of intoxication and bad behaviour but this was something new.

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In the iconic Grand Burstin Hotel where Tatsumi Orimoto was staying, the Artist explained to those assembled Grandmothers that all of the people in the famous tyre portraits were gone, it was a simple statement of mortality easily forgotten after the first course. By the end of the lunch the guests were singing the "White Cliffs Of Dover" and a raucous and poignant Victorian ditty called "She Was Poor But She Was Honest" (It's the Same the Whole World Over). A lyrical tale about the misfortunes of women in a world dominated by pimps and the aristocrats.