Artist: Hirofumi Maeshiba
Among the works of the Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu there is a movie known as "Tokyo Twilight" (Tokyo Boshoku). In the last scene of the film, the father puts his hands together at the family altar and prays for the soul of his daughter, who committed suicide. The father then leaves for work, as usual. He steps into the hallway of the house in the morning sunlight, and lingers there alone for a while, then begins to walk. He is alone. The setting of that morning can be seen as the end of his world, and it can be seen as the beginning of his world. It is a peaceful, quiet scene, but the whole world has been destroyed, it has completely ended. His leaving in that scene can also be taken as the beginning of the next world.
The work I now want to create is the landscape of the beginning that emerges from the complete destruction of one's own world. That scene is silent, and without a sound, the stillness controls me. I overflow with the energy of a new beginning.
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