Paradise? 2021
Where is paradise?
I heard a song called “Big Yellow Taxi” on the radio by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell during a long lockdown in Melbourne last year. Her lyrics remain in my mind: "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?"
In 1970, American journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson said, “Politics is the Art of controlling your environment“, in Aspen, Colorado.
These days, I'm wondering about a big question by myself: Is our environment getting better after 51 years? How do you feel now in 2021?
楽園はどこにあるのでしょうか？
昨年、メルボルンで長いロックダウンが続いていた時、ラジオでカナダのシンガーソングライター、ジョニ・ミッチェルの「ビッグ・イエロー・タクシー」という曲を聴きました。彼女の歌詞が今でも心に残っています。「失って初めて、自分が何を持っていたのかが分かる、なんてことはないだろうか？」1970年、アメリカのジャーナリストで作家のハンター・S・トンプソンは、コロラド州アスペンで「政治とは、環境をコントロールする芸術である」と述べました。
最近、私はある大きな疑問について考えています。51年経った今、私たちの環境は良くなっているのでしょうか？2021年の今、あなたはどう感じていますか？
Dream/yume2015
An ancient Japanese legend tells of many spirits in the forest, who float through time, traversing this world and many other worlds that we know little of. Our mortal existence melds into monotony and routine, but the truth is that every minute, every second is different from that before, and there might be doors waiting to be opened, opportunities leading to a different life if only we realise.
We see ourselves in the mirror every day, our reflection reversed, from left to right. Time passes, and we grow old inside the mirror. In the story of Snow White, the mirror is asked the question ”Mirror. Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all ? “. The Mirror can not lie. As we know, the mirror showed the Queen that she was no longer the most beautiful.
In our lives, we sometimes wonder .... Is this a Dream? ... or a Nightmare? ... or the Real world ? ... when the world keeps passing by us.
We dream while awake, we dream during sleep, so many suns & moonlights from the cradle to the grave. And when we wake up ...... What was the dream? What is the dream? What will the dream be?
Doorways 2016
Our human existence often seems routine, but the truth is that every minute, every second is different from the one before. Doorways are waiting to be opened, opportunities leading to a different life if we choose. But we don’t know where each doorway will lead us until we open it.
The handle to each doorway is the handle that leads forward.
Door handles can be very fragile; we should be careful. If a handle breaks, we may lose opportunities that were previously available to us.
The Bayside Council “Artist in Residence” program at Bililla in Brighton was an unexpected doorway, and led to me moving permanently to Melbourne after time periods in Queensland, and previously in Europe, where I studied in Germany and Hungary, and my native Japan.