<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[True SELF]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/chiharukaido-dscf3147.jpg"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="1282" data-permalink="https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/true-self/chiharukaido-dscf3147/" data-orig-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/chiharukaido-dscf3147.jpg" data-orig-size="400,533" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="CHIHARUKAIDO-dscf3147" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/chiharukaido-dscf3147.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/chiharukaido-dscf3147.jpg?w=400" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1282" title="CHIHARUKAIDO-dscf3147" src="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/chiharukaido-dscf3147.jpg?w=225&#038;h=300" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/chiharukaido-dscf3147.jpg?w=225&amp;h=300 225w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/chiharukaido-dscf3147.jpg?w=113&amp;h=150 113w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/chiharukaido-dscf3147.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a>While ago I&#8217;ve stumbled an interesting blog site of a Japanese artist.</p>
<p>Her site  &#8221; ciharukaido. wordpress.com &#8221; showing not only her art</p>
<p>but in fact everything, from poetry to food &#8212;&#8212;-.</p>
<p>And when  I put a comment to an amazing sculpture</p>
<p>&#8221; La geometrie du coq&#8221; 2007 ( Photo left ) she replied</p>
<p>&#8221; <strong>Sometimes your hand would tell you what you </strong></p>
<p><strong>want, rather than thinking</strong> &#8221;</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; this is the remarkable words from such young artist.</p>
<p>Among the so-called artists, not all of them reached to the level,</p>
<p>able to conceive the idea in the depth of subconsciousness.</p>
<p>( Lots of them just manufacture it in the process of thinking &#8212;&#8212;&#8211;what is new,  what is in fashion,</p>
<p>how to make it looks sensational  etc, choosing, improvising  from the existing knowledges )</p>
<p>Yet still, some of them are able to do it almost unconsciously with their intuitive imagination, and some are</p>
<p>aware of the difference between the conscious and unconscious process of creation, such as Ciharu here.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>Amazingly, but not surprisingly, <span style="color:#000000;"><strong>this is the same situation of the <span style="color:#ff0000;">Mushin</span> ( Selflessness ) and </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>awareness of the </strong></span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">True Self</span> in the Buddhism.</strong></p>
<p>( Incidentally, this is also <strong>the same thing to the  <span style="color:#ff0000;">Wu-wei</span> ( Mu-i in Japanese ) in the  Taoism</strong>, which</p>
<p>was remarkably adopted as the name of new theme in the WordPress Blog design.)</p>
<p>It is no doubt, in many philosophies and the religions, the matter of True Self is the main subject, yet to</p>
<p>some people it is not a subject to seek or debate, but naturally being there.</p>
<p>So, it is no wonder, the art created by this Chiharu Kaido has <span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>strange indescribable impact as if it was</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>a long forgotten memory or genetic vague memory of far far ancestor. <span style="color:#ff0000;"> ( So, we say &#8221; I lost word &#8221; )</span><br />
</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">( Since it was expressed direct from her subconscious without involving linguistic notion / thinking, neither</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#888888;"><span style="color:#000000;">the viewer can catch clear notion but strange impact of what she felt&#8212;&#8212;eroticism out of word and the time )</span> </span><strong><br />
</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>This is the sample of the artistic communication between the two subconsciousness.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#c0c0c0;">( If you can see and feel, this is it. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- If not, forget it   😀 )</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">So, to be an artist, to be in the true self is an advantage, though whether its Self is compatible with</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">society is the totally different matter.  They may not aware social convention or responsibilities etc.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">The artist I&#8217;ve talked about, has just disappeared without delivering the piece, even though it was </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">paid in advance.  (Some said, never trust artist, only give a money in exchange with the piece  😀  )</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;">Seems it is true. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;&#8212;</span></span></span></p>
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