The Inner Spring
Everything is in the instant a single dot is placed. The spring within me never ceases to well up.
2025 · Water-based pen and Swarovski crystals on Kenran paper · 50 × 50 cm · Price on RequestMandala Oracle Card
Reflection
KeywordsSpirituality, inquiry, mystery
The Story of the Mandala
In May 2025 I visited the Yamabuki spring in Ubuyama and began drawing with the image of its source. Partway through, thoughts welled up: “What is beauty? Who decides what is lovely and what is ugly? Life, from birth to death, is beautiful in every single moment.” Then I felt, “This mandala shows the feelings that well up endlessly from the bottom of my heart” — and I named it “The Spring Within”.
From “Today’s Message”Listen closely to the voice within…
Artist’s Notes
In early May I visited the Yamabuki spring and began drawing with the image of its water. Partway through, though, it felt as if I were drawing what welled up from inside me.
Everything we meet each day carries life. I realised that what I long for is to feel that life. A flower in full bloom and a withered one… who decided which is beautiful and which is not? Both are the same life… life continuing on and on… the age and the youth within me…
In the instant of placing a dot I felt eternity, and this moment felt like a whole lifetime… The spring within me never ceases to well up…
Threads, June 2025
Exhibitions
- 2026Fukuoka Prefecture Art Association Award, the 61st Tagawa Art Exhibition — "The Inner Spring", Tagawa City Museum of Art
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