Phoenix — Integration
Light and darkness, destruction and rebirth — the moment they are integrated within me.
2025 · Water-based pen and Swarovski crystals on Kenran paper · 50 × 50 cm · Price on RequestMandala Oracle Card
Ending and Beginning
KeywordsIntegration, death and rebirth, completion and transcendence
The Story of the Mandala
Drawn in February 2025. In December 2024 my Instagram account was taken over and I was locked out of my Google account too; my circle of relationships was abruptly cut down. I even changed my phone.
For about two months I was able to face myself. In that time I wanted to take the “Phoenix” of the year before further, and drew this.
Light and darkness, the feminine and the masculine, stillness and motion within me — not separating the two, nor judging them as good and bad, but drawing them as they become one.
From “Today’s Message”The darkness in my heart is what held me up…
Artist’s Notes
A single point of light emerging in the dark cosmos… That light becomes particles, expanding, changing, swelling, and eventually converging back into a single point… Eternally… Such is the principle of the universe.
Threads, October 2026 — words for a film of this work
Exhibitions
- 2026Selected, the 100th Kokuten Exhibition — "Phoenix — Integration", The National Art Center, Tokyo
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