When you meet the person you were meant to meet, in the place you were meant to be, you become more than you ever imagined.
強さは、孤独の中では完成しません。底力は関係性の中で引き出され、人は「あたたかな愛のエネルギー」によって、自分を超えることができる――そんな思想を込めて描いた一枚です。
作品に込めた想い
自分の人生を生き抜いてきた先で、誰かと出逢うことで、さらに大きな自分へと未来をひらかれていく方へ。すでに自立し、自分の足で立つ力を持ちながらも、その強さの先にある「つながり」や「共鳴」を、心のどこかで求めてきた方へ向けたアートです。
ひとりで歩いてきた時間も、選び続けてきた責任も、決して無駄ではなかった。そんなあなたに寄り添い、肯定するために生まれました。
Concept & Background
私たちはしばしば、強さを「耐える力」「孤独に打ち勝つ力」だと信じてきました。しかし本当の強さとは、誰かと出逢い、誰かの存在に触れ、その「あいだ」で生まれるもの。愛や感謝という目に見えない感情のエネルギーが、人の意識をひらき、人生を前進させる力へと変わる瞬間を描いています。
技法・色彩・視覚表現
画面全体に広がるオレンジ、赤、金、そして微細な青や緑は、感情、記憶、他者との気配が重なり合う様子を表現しています。明確な輪郭や中心は設けず、色同士が溶け合い、にじみ、重なり合う構成は、人と人との関係性そのものを象徴しています。これは「個」を描く絵ではなく、「関係性が生む場」を描いた絵です。
制作にあたって
誰かと出逢ったとき、自分の中に確かに起こる変化の感覚を、言葉ではなく、色とエネルギーで残したいと願いました。強さは、ひとりで抱え込む時間の果てではなく、誰かの存在を受け取った瞬間に生まれる。
ご覧くださる方それぞれの「出逢いの記憶」や「支えられた経験」に寄り添い、自分の中にすでにある強さに気づくきっかけとなりますように。
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More about this painting
A study of happiness that has lasted more than 85 years
Harvard University is home to one of the longest-running studies of human life in the world: the Harvard Study of Adult Development.
Begun in 1938, it has followed the lives of 724 men — Harvard students and boys who grew up in inner-city Boston — over many decades. Work, marriage, health, friendships: every two years they answered questions, and their physical health was checked again and again. Today, their children's generation has joined the study too.
What it found: the importance of connection
The biggest lesson from this long study is that warm relationships, more than money or fame, keep people happier and healthier.
The psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, who directs the study, has said that "good relationships keep us happier and healthier." People who felt more connected to family, friends and community tended to be happier and physically healthier, while those who felt lonely were more likely to see their mental and physical health decline.
The study also reports that people who felt they could rely on their partners in hard times kept their memories sharper as they aged.
Strength is born between people
In "Where Strength Is Born," I did not draw clear outlines or a center. The colors melt into each other, bleed and overlap. Orange, red, gold and faint blue and green represent emotions, memories and the presence of others layering over one another.
When we think of strength, we often imagine the power to do everything alone. But true strength may be born in the space where people touch one another.
A painting that holds the presence of others
A painting in a room where family gathers, or a place where friends spend time together, quietly watches over the time people share there.
I hope that each time you see this painting, you remember the people who support you.
Sources
Harvard Study of Adult Development (official site)
Robert Waldinger (What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness, TED, 2015)
Harvard Gazette (Good genes are nice, but joy is better, 2017)
¥83,000
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A one-of-a-kind original painting.
