『君が何者かを知る為には、君の心が光る瞬間に敏感になる事だよ。』
人はしばしば自分を見失い、闇に沈む瞬間を経験します。しかし、その深い闇から立ち上がり、自分自身を再び信じることができたとき、新たな未来への一歩が生まれる。自分を見失いそうなとき、未来へ一歩踏み出すエネルギーが必要な方へ描いた一枚です。
作品に込めた想い
「目醒め」と「自己信頼」をテーマにした作品です。「大丈夫でなくてもいい」「ありのままの自分を受け入れることから光は始まる」「人は誰もが愛されており、その存在自体が奇跡である」という祈りを込めました。
Concept & Background
複数の色を重ねては削り取るプロセスを繰り返し、内側から光が滲み出るような表情を与えました。緑や青の透明感、赤や橙のぬくもりが交錯し、近くで見ると粒子のような色彩が呼吸し、遠くから眺めると全体が柔らかな光の層として浮かび上がります。その重層的な色彩は、人の心が揺らぎながらも再生していく過程を映し出しています。
制作にあたって
「人は誰もが愛されており、その存在自体が奇跡である」という祈りを込めました。怖れを抱いてもよい、涙を流してもよい、そんな自分をそのまま抱きしめながら、再び自分の内なる光を信じるきっかけとなりますように。
ここに描かれた光は、自己信頼と他者からの愛に支えられて、人が本来の自分を取り戻していく旅路を象徴しています。君が何者かを知るためには、君の心が光る瞬間に敏感になること。そしてそれを探し続けるのを諦めないこと。
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More about this painting
The night sky painters looked up at
The universe and the starry sky have drawn painters for centuries.
One of the best known is Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night." Painted in 1889 while he was staying at an asylum in Saint-Rémy in the south of France, it was based on the view from his window before dawn, and is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The swirling sky, the shining stars and moon — it is loved around the world as a painting not of what the eye sees, but of the sky the heart felt.
"Universe, Paradise of Memories" is not the universe seen through a telescope either. It is the inner universe we feel in the moments when our hearts light up.
What awe does for the heart
Before a sky full of stars or vast nature, we sometimes feel lost for words. Psychologists call this feeling "awe," and it has been studied actively in recent years.
A research team at the University of California, San Francisco asked people aged 60 and over to take a 15-minute walk once a week for eight weeks (published in the journal Emotion, 2020). Half of them were asked to look at their surroundings with fresh eyes, as if seeing them for the first time.
Those who took these "awe walks" felt more joy and warmth toward others during their walks, and their everyday distress decreased. In the selfies they took on each walk, they gradually appeared smaller and the scenery larger — and their smiles grew bigger.
When we feel small
The researchers call this change the "small self." Feeling small in a vast world is not lonely; it can lead us to feel connected to everything around us.
Hanging a painting that evokes the universe may be a way of making, in each day, a little time to look up at the sky.
In the moments your heart lights up
I gave this painting the words: "To know who you are, become sensitive to the moments when your heart shines."
When you look up at the stars, when you meet something beautiful, when someone's words warm your heart — I hope this painting reminds you of those small moments of light.
Sources
MoMA (Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889)
Sturm, V. E., et al. (Big smile, small self: Awe walks promote prosocial positive emotions in older adults, Emotion, 2020)
UCSF (Awe Walks Boost Emotional Well-Being, 2020)
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