KEIKO KOMA net

7 May 2010

Culture

I was invited by the Ambassador of the Republic of Iran to Japan and participated in an opening ceremony of an historic exhibition of treasures of Persian carpets that were brought from the national carpet museum in Iran for the first time to an overseas exhibition. The very famous one made about four hundred years ago that has annually been used for the Gion festival in Kyoto was also exhibited. From opening speeches I realized a long and intimate relationship between Japan and Iran and taking this opportunity I highly considered the precious function of culture as a means to unite people. This May I would perform a poetic concert, the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered, in Teheran, Iran together with Mr. Idaki Shin. We worked very hard to realize this, as our local staff in Iran persistently asked us in view of urgent situations in need of peace. At another opening speech today, I heard again that Iran was a country of poems and poets as people loved poems since ancient times. Actually his speech itself was very poetic and attractive. Many Iranian people I met abroad told me the same thing that they were brought up with music and poems so they loved the music of Mr. Idaki Shin and my poems. Another Iranian I greeted at today’s reception asked me to narrate a divine message as he seemed to have participated in the past in one of the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concerts . It was a great honor to hold this program in the country of a poet.
Impressed by the importance of culture, later today I went to the Keiko Koma Skyrocket center at Omotesando that manifested a completely new cultural dimension. Vigor to live on and new ideas were coming up from my internality. Today I partially changed the installation of the second floor. Mind-scape curtains and tapestries expressed a world of dreams. Komasui glass art pieces looked like flowers in the endless universe, powerfully changing the surrounding space into a new one as they did at my home. They were not mere objects but new creatures expressing life as they were born out of my own life. They were beautiful like pure streaming water. Also a newly created marbling scarf and shirt joined the space and invited lovely spring breezes as it was created in the inner garden of the Koma gallery Café at Yasaka and flower petals of cherry blossoms had dropped over it to make marvelous patterns after having danced freely in space. I vividly remember this scenery and the very exciting moment of its creation.
Therefore the second floor became a world of dreams. When a person was surrounded by a world of dreams one would surely be able to live a dramatic life. A dream would come into reality.