"Your life is starting to move again, now."
The moment the gears that had stopped begin to turn, you are freed from the feeling of being ruled by something other than yourself, and you begin to walk by your own will and light. In this painting I depicted the restarting of the power to live and an awakening to freedom.
The Feeling in This Work
Becoming free from fear, living bravely, the path always being open: such messages flow continuously through the vibration of this art.
Concept & Background
Like the starting sound of a life that had stopped and is moving again, I expressed a powerful pulse in which energy begins to rise. The overlapping colors carry not inner confusion but a sense of connecting with a great flow, and the sure sign of yourself being reborn within it.
Technique, Color & Expression
The white light rising strongly symbolizes the moment when a power sleeping within is awakened and the soul rises again. Its radiance spreads across the whole canvas as the heartbeat of a life beginning to move forward once more.
On Making This Work
I made this work wishing to awaken the vitality, power of regeneration and self-healing that people inherently have. Not being ruled by anyone, nor swallowed by your own shadow, but simply regaining the light to live your own life to the fullest. That very moment is ascension: the movement of life rising and advancing to the next stage.
May it become a chance for those who stand before it to remember the feeling of the energy that was sleeping within them circulating again, and to begin turning the gears of their life with their own hands once more.
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More about this painting
What grows after hardship
The strong white light rising in "Life of Ascension" represents the moment when a strength that had been sleeping within is awakened, and we rise once again.
In psychology there is a concept called "post-traumatic growth," proposed in the 1990s by the American psychologists Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun. It describes how people who have gone through great difficulty or painful events can grow psychologically as they face that suffering.
Growth appears in five forms
Tedeschi and Calhoun explain that this growth can appear in forms such as:
- feeling a deeper connection with others
- noticing new ways of living and new possibilities
- sensing one's own inner strength
- a deeper appreciation for being alive
- deeper thoughts about what matters and the meaning of life
Of course, it would be better never to suffer. But even while carrying what has already happened, people can find new light from there. This idea has given hope to many.
The color white
The white at the center of this painting has long been treasured in Japan as a color of purity and new beginnings: the robes of Shinto priests, the white paper streamers at shrines, the white worn at the new year and at life's milestones.
White is also the color in which all colors of light come together. A life that has gathered many experiences rises once more with a fresh heart — I put that image into the white light.
Forward, once again
The strength a person is born with never disappears. Sometimes it is only sleeping.
I hope that whenever you see the white light of this painting, you feel the strength quietly trying to rise within you.
Sources
Tedeschi, R. G. & Calhoun, L. G. (The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 1996)
Tedeschi, R. G. & Calhoun, L. G. (Posttraumatic growth: Conceptual foundations and empirical evidence, Psychological Inquiry, 2004)
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