KEIKO KOMA net

31 Mar  2009

Everything has life and is unified

Spring breezes brought me an aroma of spring that told me of the arrival of a new season of flowers. At the lecture in Osaka given by Mr. Idaki Shin, he said that without being taught by someone else, a person was born to understand all human emotions and capable of expressing them. His story coincided with my speculations on my own nature and especially I recalled how I lived in my childhood.  I used to bring home many street animals and considered them as family members as I could communicate with them in the same manner as I talked to flowers and trees. When one of them passed away I became extremely sad and I used to keep on weeping in a corner of my school yard. Later I decided not to bring any home as I could not support seeing them die and I cultivated only flowers. However, after I started the Idaki counseling courses at my home, these flowers were deeply damaged by negative factors of participating people. So I stopped putting flowers at home anymore. These days my car has been in trouble and I did not wash it for days, and it looked sad, so I cleaned it up yesterday. Eventually it started running without a problem as if it were grateful to me. When I looked at old files of photos taken by Mr. Idaki Shin, all of them looked like a precious treasure and when there was a damaged one I felt really sorry. Even a leaflet using a photo by Mr. Idaki Shin seemed to have a life and I treated it with a lot of care. In doing an installation of my works, each seemed to have a wish to be installed at a specific spot. Like usage in our language, objects have to be carefully treated as if they had life so that our own life will become brilliant.