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16/07/03
My Dear Friend,
Many thanks for "coming" to my
summer exhibition and for saying your kind and encouraging words. I feel at long
last that my training in Western-style art and that in Japanese style seem to
have begun to come together in a very subtle way. These two elements are no
longer clashing violently against each other within myself as they had done
before. I feel artistically-schizophrenic less now than before, which is
caused by the doctrine of:
Oh, East is East, and
West is West,
Instead, I have begun to feel that within myself the two strong
cultures are meeting and that some creative fusion is taking place quietly
but surely, without one pandering the other but by interaction enriching
each other. Haiku spirit in the meantime also helps the process. Living in
the two cultures seems to help as well. However, the greatest converging force
may be coming from:
But there is neither East
nor West,
I am continuing my efforts in this direction and hope that
they might lead to an autumn exhibition. Thank you once again for your
kind interest in my works and for your warm encouragement.
[My dream is that the same or similar thing would happen to haiku
poets under the umbrella of WHC]
Artistically yours,
Susumu
SUMMER EXHIBITION 2003 -- Watercolours from "Summer at Leys Farm" Cycle by Susumu Takiguchi (online at: http://www.floatingstone.net/summer2003.html ) A series of paintings commissioned by Hoshino Tsubaki, President of the Tamamo School and the magazine of the same name, and of the Kamakura Kyoshi & Tatsuko Memorial Museum. To see other works by the artist, please visit: http://www.floatingstone.net/sitemap.html Contact:
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