Artist Room Cherry Blossoms [ARTIST IN HOTEL]

Date :

From February 2015

Place :

Park Hotel Tokyo

Cherry blossoms –circulation –

Japanese people accept that their physical being is only transient, yet see beauty in this transient nature, and weep for it. The cherry tree, which is especially beautiful when its blossoms fall, reflects the aesthetic sense unique to Japan, and continues to be loved by its people.
This image, in which I took blossoms and butterflies as my motif, expresses the unstoppable passage of time, uncertainty, and the fact that we remain the same while the world around us changes incessantly.
In this room, I painted cherry blossoms using the butterfly which is a symbol of transient nature or the soul. The butterfly represents a cycle, such as that of the four seasons - spring, summer, autumn and winter - and human birth and death, as it flutters around the room.
I hope that this work with its cherry blossoms and gold foil, which has been used for wall paintings in Japan since ancient times, will give you a sense of brightness and the uniquely Japanese aesthetic awareness of transient nature.

Hiroko Otake

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