Japan Blues is the result of a recent trip to Japan. This was a trip of pure wanderlust, I wasn’t in Japan for work, but as a traveller by train. Opening my eyes to a new country, I was intrigued by the culture and landscape, and started to notice a colour in the landscape that I was not used to—blue. This vibrant colour stuck out in various unusual situations. Objects that I am used to being orange to show their visibility were blue or ones normally green to blend in were blue. Road cones, quayside bollards—blue; rubbish bags, compost heaps—blue.  In souvenir shops I found thin wooden postcards that were either plain or had an image of a local tourist site rubber stamped on them. So with a combination of the postcards and images of blue objects Japan Blues is my take on the experience I had in Japan and also the feeling I had when returning to my everyday European life.