Flower — Eve of the Age of Wind

They say an age is coming in which each of us blooms our own flower — drawn with hope on its eve.

2024 · Pastel, water-based pen and Swarovski crystals · 30 × 30 cm · $4,900

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Mandala Oracle Card

Blooming

KeywordsGrowth; knowing your inner truth; uniting inner and outer

The Story of the Mandala

A work from November 2024. “Essays in Idleness” asks: “Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, and the moon only when it is cloudless?” It expresses a spirit that cherishes every step of life — birth, ripening and death — not only the blossoms at their peak or the full moon.

On the eve of the Age of Air, I finished it thinking of the fragility and the universality of life, its gentleness and its intensity…

In the Age of Air, keeping my centre within myself, riding the wind, aiming with soul friends for peace and calm in this world — feet on the ground, I will live, letting my own flower bloom…

From “Today’s Message”Let your own flower bloom — the one no one else can…


Artist’s Notes

The flower within me… It is a one-of-a-kind radiance… Releasing that radiance into the world, making life shine brightly…

Threads, October 2026 — words for a film of this work

3 Oracle

  • Prologue to a New Life — Kumano Reminiscence
  • Mirror
  • Balance
  • Transformation
  • Grounding
  • Phoenix — Transformation
  • Kōsai — Radiance
  • The Inner Spring
  • Infinity
  • Phoenix — Integration
  • New World
  • Communion with the Wild Gods — Shin’yaba Iwato Kagura
  • Fluctuation
  • Flow
  • Letting Go
  • Yin and Yang
  • The Sea of Hatōzu — Energy of the White Dragon
  • Iyasaka
  • My Healing
  • Love Myself
  • Gratitude
  • Yoshuku — Golden Rainbow Bridge
  • AQUA — Mikumari, Deity of the Waters
  • Ryūrei — Flowing Grace
  • Waiting for Spring
  • Flower — Eve of the Age of Wind
  • Spring Light
  • Saiun — Iridescent Clouds
  • Dragon's Back
  • Morning Light — At Takasumi Shrine
  • Dynamism
  • Cherry Blossoms 2025
  • Voice of the Wind
  • Ring of Light

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