WATER AND DIAMOND: NO. 17 BEAUTIFUL THING

I would like to share my message for the exhibition, Prayer of Water, starting from 2^nd of July.

The action of life maintains a dynamic balance.

Nature moves constantly, yet, supports life with orderly flow.

The action is well manifested in a flow of water.

The water changes its form continuously.

At the same time, it sustains a balance as a whole.

Water moves, flows, and circulates while purifying itself.

Aspired to see the movements of the life force, which is the same as a flow of time, try to capture the image at a source of rivers.

Natural beauty dwells in the Absolute Moment of heaven, humans, and earth.

The beauty leads to life force.  Life is natural beauty itself.

WATER AND DIAMOND: NO. 16 CREATING THE BEAUTY

In order to create the beauty of the diamonds, they need to be cut and polished.  When it is cut, a cutter has to decide which part to keep.  When polishing, s/he cuts little by little to shape it, and finish by buffing the surface.  Usually, cutters focus on making a good shape.  However, we keep in our mind the image of taking out the child of the lights which inherits in each rough diamond.   

It means that the essence of beauty is already in the rough diamonds.  Putting into a good shape doesn’t make the beauty, but we help it to come out from the stone.

As a result, it will have a beautiful shape. 

I think this is same to paintings or sculptures.  Before seeing the external beauty or pulling things into shape, one has to face the sacredness of the stone or woods in front, which is invisible.  If the artist is only focusing on the external beauty, the work will be vain and empty.

Visible shape is supported by the invisible beauty

WATER AND DIAMOND: NO. 15 BEAUTIFUL BRILLIANCY

Brilliancy is a beauty.  Prettiness, Kirei, and beauty, Utsukushisa, means slightly different in Japanese.  Water has prettiness, but not beauty.  However, we say the flow of water is beautiful.  In the same way, we refer light as pretty and brilliancy as beautiful.

Thinking in that way, beauty refers the nature of the materials, or its function which stimulates human emotion to make a positive reaction.  That makes beauty and pretty different.

Moreover, the word beauty is often accompanied by a sense of dignity which the speaker has.  S/he observes and comprehends the object, and resonate it inside of her/him.

Brilliancy of the diamond also is a material term.  I would like you to know that the material tem is supported by the resonance from inside.  For those who can resonate, I really wish them to have diamonds.

WATER AND DIAMOND: NO. 14 SPARKLES

Recently, I have been posting entries on this blog regarding water and diamonds; their similarities and differences.  When I think back, I have to realize that I have spent much of my life on these two materials.  People often ask whether if they share anything in common.  Not until just 15 years ago, I didn’t even think about the similarities.  However, there are so many, and I soon realized that “Life”, which is the most important thing for living creatures, is the key word.

Carbon is the essential substance for living being, and diamond is a crystallized carbon. Water also is crucial for living. 

Moreover, in order to live a lively life, one must shine like a diamond.  Eternal life means circulating like water. 

Now you can see how these two materials are connected deep in the bottom.  Humanity has a responsibility to relate to them with value.

Some would say this sounds very religious, however, that is an opinion from people who have wrong conception of religion.  When we get older, we have different views on nature and life start to change naturally.  Therefore, getting along in years is a good thing.

WATER AND DIAMOND: NO. 13 LITTLE BREAK… LIGHTS AND GLINTS

I received precious E-mail yesterday, and I would like to share it with you.

It reads “Mr. Shigetomi’s Ryusui-mon is self-less and profound work which identify itself with a flow of water. 

While it shows a fast tempo of the flow, I can still hear an instrument sing like a water song.  I suppose this is because the work carries memory of water. 

It reminded me of a phrase ‘human is a drop of water, and God is water’. ”

Setsuko Klossowska de Rola

 

This is a message from Ms. Setsuko for my exhibition starting from July 2^nd, In gratitude for the water of life; Prayer of water.  Due to her elegant vocabulary and sophisticated sentences, I can easily picture warm and blight light from Ms. Setsuko.  This, I believe, is a sparkle.