"Love alone is the true energy passed down across time."
The salvation of this world is all of us who know love. Into this painting I put the image of starlight, the light of souls and the energy of love, given off without interruption across time. It is a work dedicated to everyone who believes in the essence of love and tries to keep choosing light in any situation.
The Feeling in This Work
The salvation of the world is not some special being, but each one of us who knows love and chooses love. I expressed that universal truth from a cosmic perspective.
Light and darkness, people and living things: everything exists embraced by the earth. Under that great embrace, love alone crosses time and is passed down forever. Throughout the work I put an unshakable power of love, trust in harmony, and a deep sense of security in being protected by the universe.
Technique, Color & Expression
Layering colors in many strata, I aimed for a visual expression like countless stars circling and particles of light radiating in every direction. The yellow and gold light pulses through the whole work as eternity and the radiance of the soul, the blue and violet as the stillness of the universe and the spiritual dimension, and the particles of pink, gold and silver as proof that the vibrations of love and life are alive. That the particles of color seem to circulate and keep twinkling without pause shows that the energy keeps flowing without stopping.
On Making This Work
Through this work, I wanted to paint the truth that love is the fundamental power of the world. Love never disappears, and however strong the darkness may seem, behind it there is always just as much light.
May this work always gently and powerfully awaken the sense that the energy called love continues forever and links onward into the future.
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More about this painting
Paintings that shine with gold
This painting is layered with yellow and gold light. Gold has long been used in art around the world as a color of eternity and of what is precious.
A particularly famous painter of gold is the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. "The Kiss," painted in 1907–1908 with real gold leaf, depicts lovers embracing in golden light, and it is held today at the Belvedere in Vienna. This period of Klimt's work is known as his "Golden Phase."
Japanese gold leaf and Kanazawa
Japan, too, has many beautiful arts that use gold: the Golden Pavilion, Buddhist statues, folding screens, maki-e lacquer.
Much of that gold leaf is made in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. Kanazawa produces nearly all of Japan's gold leaf, and the craft of beating gold to about one ten-thousandth of a millimeter is handed down by artisans. In 2020, the gold-leaf making of Kanazawa was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list as one of the traditional skills for conserving Japanese wooden architecture.
The shine of gold that does not fade for centuries is truly a symbol of "eternal radiance."
Starlight and time
Another theme of this painting is the stars. I painted countless stars circling, and particles of light streaming out in every direction.
The starlight we see in the night sky has taken years, centuries, sometimes thousands of years to reach Earth. The light we see now left its star long ago. When we look up at the stars, we are actually looking into the distant past.
The light within you that never fades
Yellow and gold for eternity and the brilliance of the soul, blue and violet for the stillness of the universe, pink for tenderness and love. In this painting each color overlaps the others and spreads on and on.
Like gold that shines for centuries, like starlight that travels for thousands of years — I hope this painting reminds you that within you, too, there is a light that does not fade with time.
Sources
Belvedere Museum (Gustav Klimt, The Kiss)
Kanazawa City (Kanazawa gold leaf)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (Traditional skills, techniques and knowledge for the conservation and transmission of wooden architecture in Japan, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage)
