4th Apr. 2014

 

Color of a great river

 

In my marbling art works I used a special color that I named the color of a great river. It looked a mixture of blue and green that I prepared by myself, inspired at heart by the color of a river traversing a historic land of Koguryo.
At my home in Morioka, I exhibited, in a Japanese style room with a Tatami floor, a calligraphy work on Japanese traditional paper in the shape of an arch and marbling drawing in this color. As I sat on the table every day, I faced toward it and read words in black ink on the paper that looked like Amnokwang River, that “Brilliantly shining surface of river, its sadness is transforming into love”. This matched very well my image of the land at 40 degrees north latitude; Morioka was the same as the land of Koguryo.
Though it was not prohibited freely to traverse the great river, I sincerely wished that a door for peace would be opened in some future, and people would move around freely. As I wished to create a path for unifying East Asian countries, I was guided to open my space in Kyoto. Also I was guided to come to open my space and buy my home in the land of forty degrees north latitude, having visited disaster-hit areas. The sky, stars, moon, wind and souls of people were all telling me that I have been guided to create a path for realizing the unity of East Asia. I was grateful as all my activities in various places were heading for realizing my deepest wishes.
Also at the land of forty degrees north latitude, I prayed many times that the miserable dead-end circumstances in Lebanon, homeland of my soul, and the Middle East countries, would soon find a way out. Within my heart I embraced an endless world far beyond the beautiful and ever transparent blue sky, and have been asking myself every day what I could do to help people there. As I felt within my life that my expression in Tohoku could reach to the heart of people all over the world, I prayed that the warmth of people here would be globally diffused all over.
Tomorrow we would hold the Idaki Shin concert at Kitakami and the Kitakami river made me fill my eyes with tears just by watching its surface, so I was wondering how I would feel this time and was looking forwards to participating in the concert that would globally influence its energies. I wished to pave a way for realizing a global peace all together.
Meanwhile Prof. Ghazi from Lebanon wrote me a letter that made recall that I was surprised to have encountered cherry blossoms in Lebanon. They looked very different under brilliant sun beam while I knew only the beauty of cherry blossoms in Japan with moderate sun light. A good surprise and pleasant discovery was the source for creating a new world as I realized that my life has started to live in a new dimension of the world, and even a flower looked very different now from the image I had in the past.