KEIKO KOMA net

17 Feb. 2011

From Reika to the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered

While I held a video screening of Reika in Kyoto its music and poem specially touched my heart. On a cold winter night I happened to hold the Messages from Mother Earth concert at an old estate facing Takakura street, that had reminded me of an ancient and historic link with my ancestor, and then I came to open our facilities in Kyoto. As I narrated poems about Kyoto I had created in my teens when I had frequently visited the ancient capital city, all of a sudden I recalled my father who had passed away and could not resist shedding tears. At the end of this concert, I envisioned a light of hope on the dark earth buried deep underground, and realized that even the smallest light like the eye of a needle would later make the world be filled with light. I witnessed that the music played by Mr. Idaki Shin had lit a glorious light on the rigidly closed ground. Though I did not remember very well, after the concert I decided to hold an exhibition of my art works at the same place. Obviously I had received a message of light coming from an unknown future and followed a message born at the core of my life. This was how a timeless world dictated new things. Meanwhile I had the tendency immediately to forget my own expressions of life, as they were arising each moment so having made a reservation of the hall for my next event, I had completely forgotten about this until one of my staff asked me what we had to announce that we would do in that hall. Though I had not thought about it so far, and had forgotten the fact of my having made the reservation, quite naturally I said that of course we would organize my art exhibition. Then as everybody started to prepare for the exhibition, I envisioned that I should hold the Legends of Koguryo Rediscovered concert, and spontaneously appointed an appropriate concert hall where I had never been, but that had been recommended to me many years ago. My exhibition ended in great success. So I opened the Koma gallery Café at Yasaka and then I opened our Kyoto office at Takakura street, the same street where I had held my very first event in Kyoto. And to my great wonder, at this Kyoto office I came to hold screening events of Reika. I anticipated something wonderful to happen. My heart became excited at our dramatic future..