"I wish that today and tomorrow, you will have many smiles and be very well."
Time spent cherishing someone colors life richly all by itself. The feeling of thinking of someone so much that your head fills up like a field of flowers. I painted that tenderness as colors filling the whole canvas.
The Feeling in This Work
For those who want the time they spend with someone dear to be even more filled with love.
Through this painting, I hope the daily lives of viewers will overflow with more love, and that their warm moments will grow.
Concept & Background
A work born from the feeling that "the time spent thinking of someone dear is filled with happiness." It expresses as color the energy of love: the feeling of cherishing someone. It carries the prayer that the time you spend with your dear ones becomes even more full of love.
Technique, Color & Expression
Layering acrylic paint many times and scattering bright pinks, yellows, greens and blues, I created a texture in which light seems to sparkle softly. The fine touches and overlapping colors evoke the feeling of the heart softly unwinding, and of love spreading like flowers.
On Making This Work
By thinking of someone and wishing for their happiness, your own heart, too, is healed and fulfilled. The very time spent thinking of someone you love becomes a power that colors life richly. I painted this work with that cycle in it.
The same work cannot be delivered again, but with Personal Order Art, I paint a one-of-a-kind work just for you through a conversation with each person.About using the artwork
More about this painting
We are made of star-stuff
"We are made of star-stuff." The American astronomer Carl Sagan said this in the television series "Cosmos," broadcast in 1980.
It is a poetic image, and also a scientific fact. When the universe was young, there were only light elements such as hydrogen and helium. The carbon and oxygen that make up our bodies, the calcium in our bones and the iron in our blood were made inside stars over long periods of time, and scattered into space when those stars ended their lives.
That stardust gathered to form the sun and the Earth, and in time, life was born. In each of our bodies, fragments of stars that shone billions of years ago are still alive.
What shooting stars really are
The shooting stars that flash across the night sky are cosmic dust too. Tiny grains drifting through space plunge into Earth's atmosphere, heat up as they collide with the air, and give off light. Many are said to be about the size of a grain of sand.
The Perseid meteor shower in mid-August and the Geminids in mid-December are known as nights when many shooting stars can be seen. Such tiny stardust becomes such beautiful light.
A heart gently loosening
In "stardust," I layered acrylic paint many times and scattered bright pink, yellow, green and blue to create a texture where light softly sparkles.
The fine touches and overlapping colors represent a gentle time in which the heart gently loosens.
You, too, are a fragment of the stars
There may be days when you feel small, or feel you have nothing. But within your body are fragments of stars that shone long ago.
I hope that whenever you see this painting, you remember that you yourself are made of the light of the universe.
Sources
Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980)
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Meteors and meteor showers) — in Japanese
NASA (on stardust and the elements)
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