KEIKO KOMA net

24 Jan. 2011

Soul of Koguryo

I recalled the day at Yasaka, Kyoto when I created marbling drawings in the inner yard of the Koma gallery Café, raising a voice of cheers even under heavy snow and in severe cold. Now I put on a special Koguryo costume, custom-made out of textiles with my marbling drawings. I realized the universal nature of human life and was filled with dynamic and free energy to live on. As I looked at other people putting on a similar costume, using the same textiles with my marbling drawings, I was greatly moved, as it was shining like a flower of light. At a concert hall when a light attracted me in the darkness, there was always someone who put one on. I became confident that in some future many people would come naturally to wear Koguryo’s costume with my marbling drawings. I was happy to have acknowledged that, seen from the future, we were creating the beginning of many new standards. Just by revising the history of fashion, one would easily discover that human clothes have drastically changed their shape and way to be worn. As we were living in a great transitory period of human history, anything could completely change itself to a new one and in this new era one would better put on things that made one’s internality filled with hope richly shine. When I made marbling under heavy snow, I mixed colors by myself to make something unique in the world that I joyfully called the color of Koguryo. Then Koguryo’s costume in Koguryo’s color manifested Great Being and I realized with all my life that numerous souls of people greatly appreciated this. The joy of creating marbling drawings on that snowy day was not my personal one, but the tears of joy of numerous souls of people. What I did responded to the deepest desires of the world of souls. I was greatly impressed with extreme joy beyond expression in words. I was filled with vigor to achieve anything I did for opening up our future, as numerous souls were unified with my life. I was filled with hope for the future and today’s concert also made me realize a marvelous thing that was beyond expression in my vocabulary. However, this was surely leading me to welcome the arrival of an authentic spring in human history.