This will be the last of my posts about my father, Fukujuro, for the time being. They were nothing particularly special, just some memories of a father and son from a poor cab driver's family. The buddhist priest of the Jōdo sect who came to read a sutra gave us a talk after reciting the Nembutsu. The content of the talk was about luck and fate. Through reincarnation, the process by which a living being is reborn many times—not only as human beings but also as other creatures including animals—at this moment we are living our given lives as human beings. He explained that the idea that we should not leave this as a mere coincidental "luck" of the moment but must find the meaning of our time in life by respecting our relationships with other people constitutes the concept of “en,” or a fated relationship. I was grateful for the wisdom of the doctrine, which frees us from the all-consuming sorrow of loss caused by death through such abstract concepts. In Japan, when a person dies, they are customarily cremated. After being cremated for about an hour in the chamber, the white bones come out in pieces, which are then collected, put in an urn, and placed in a tomb. But before that final step, there is a period of 49 days during which we welcome the cremated remains into our homes and pray for the dead. We are going through that period at the moment. I would like to put my palms together in a prayer for my father once again, in gratitude for the reincarnation and all the fated relationships during the time he has lived. Namu Amida Buddha. 南無阿弥陀仏 🙏 translation: @tabi_the_fat

No'2155 soldout 葛飾北斎『冨嶽三十六景』をモチーフに抽象画を書いて見ました。目線の誘導やグルーブの折り重なり方などを意識しました。 I drew an abstract painting based on Hokusai Katsushika's "Thirty-six Views of Mt. I was conscious of how to guide the eye and how the grooves overlap. #杉田陽平 #杉ちゃん#葛飾北斎#北斎#冨嶽三十六景 #5時に夢中 #sugitayohei #バチェロレッテ #バチェラー #アートフェア東京 #名古屋高島屋 #當代藝術 #作品販売 #現代アートコレクター #現代アート好きな人と繋がりたい #アートのある暮らし #hokusai #abstract #lifewithart ##contemporarypainting #contemporaryartcollectors #abstractpainting #contemporaryartist #sbiartauction #interiordesign #artlovers #buyart #artbasel #anykobe

Reposted from @blumandpoe On view until October 23 at Blum & Poe Los Angeles — an exhibition of ceramic sculptures by Chiba, Japan-based artist Kazunori Hamana alongside works made in collaboration with fellow artist Yukiko Kuroda.    After the vessels are fired, Hamana places them outside of his studio for the natural elements to mark and transform, determining their final form. Irregular and imperfect in shape, and sometimes imbued with geometric shapes and abstract symbols, his pots resemble ancient terra-cotta objects that were hidden in the soil for ages.    Hamana collaborates with Kuroda on vessels that undergo the process of kintsugi (the art of repairing broken pottery). Kuroda’s home was previously a local farmer’s and still hosts a variety of abandoned farming materials, many of which find their way into her kintsugi practice, such as traces of bamboo baskets or antique paper. She also marks Hamana’s pots with remnants of rice grain harvested from his organic rice fields, leaving strong lines and adding new visual landscapes. Each pot is treated as an individual entity with specific needs. Accepting that repair might not be the solution in some cases, Hamana and Kuroda’s collaborations embrace each unique narrative, and the natural flow of the life cycle which is transient and impermanent.    Image: Installation view, Los Angeles, Photo: Dan Finlayson.     #KazunoriHamana #YukikoKuroda @kazunorihamana @yukiko_krd