Beauty in Silence: Seimiya Kusabun and the Physical Poem of Busshin Deriki™.
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In our house, there is an old Buddha that has crumbled over time.
It has no face, no arms or legs. Yet, I feel at home with the way it is.
It is as if the Buddha himself is teaching me the strength of "not speaking.
Lately, I have been drawn again to the works of Kusufumi Seimiya.
The colors of the woodblock overlap, sink in, and eventually reach the depths of silence.
The deep stillness of his work is, for me, connected to the "beauty of movement.
I am exploring the "power in stillness" through a method called Busshin Dereki™.
It is to relax.
And to surrender to the in-between.
To continue to exist in space as a sign without form.
I tried to preserve this feeling in the form of a poem.
It is named "Psalms in Motion.
Psalms in Motion｜I
Sink your body into the overlapping colors
Breath was there before words
Deep into the bottomless silence
─ There is a place you can reach without stepping out
Psalms in Motion｜II
Untie your hands, close your eyes, surrender your back
Just once, let go of all power
It's not a collapse
It's the starting point of a rise
Psalms in Motion｜III
In between, melting
before form, before sound
the boundary of the name "I"
quietly unravels
Psalms in Motion｜IV
Like a statue of Buddha without a Buddha,
it does not speak, it does not lead, it only exists
its silence illuminates
the hearts of men.
These words were born from the overlap between the abyss of Kiyomiya's colors, the decaying beauty of Heian Buddha, and my own view of the body.
To move is not just to perform a movement.
Rather, it is to get in touch with "the energy that is full of motionlessness" -
To do this, we quietly, deeply, cut away the waste.
Whenever I see the works of Seimiya, I always think to myself, "Nothing is drawn here anymore.
Nothing is drawn here anymore."
─ But everything is there.
We want to be like that again with Busshin Dekiryoku™.
A way to lead without speaking, and a form of "existence" that emerges when the words are stripped away.
I will continue to search for that beauty.
