December 24, 2015
My mother died at the age of 72.
I addressed myself with an artistic expression rooted in my mother's life
I tried to capture her personality through letters.
When I opened the remaining album, I found a huge collection of photos of flowers with dates and words on the back.
 

pure and fierce mother's work
My mother's will and love
Without disappearing
It remained there.

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when I was in the third year of junior high school.
My grandmother died of a heart attack.
My mother deeply regretted not being able to see her at her death.
My sorrow never healed.

After a while, she started copying sutras.
This practice continued until my mother, in her sixties, dedicated it on the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage.
Once my mother has made up her mind, she continues to do anything until she feels comfortable with it, and I can't help but think that the letters I receive almost every week since I came to Tokyo are a manifestation of her own devotion to prayer.

My mother herself became a believer in Namu Amida Buddha for the act of prayer she continued until a few months before her death.
THE PRINCIPAL Vow is connected to Mingei thought,
is deeply connected to the beauty of use.

When I got to the production,
It took us six years of continuous decline.
However, I found my mother again and again, and each time it became a place where I could meet a new mother.
It has a dual structure, where the symbolic world of flowers and the letters work together to make the words vibrate.

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This book
This is a conceptual art book with a flower theme and a mother's artistic expression.