The gallery line: a bright work about love, memory, and moving forward with hope beyond fear. Two skulls stacked in pink, blue, and green; blue flowers; a small white figure offering a heart. Handwriting all over: We can do it, just do it, I like you, Death is not the end. Color beginning again after the skull.

Tanaka has been knocked down more than once — the bar, the hospital, the street in Ginza. This canvas is the instruction he kept painting: keep going. It is not a motivational poster. It is a skull that still believes in flowers. The right picture for someone who has had to start again.