Miya Ozaki
I was drawn to the teachings of Buddha, early Buddhism, and Nagarjuna, and the concept of the eight negations and emptiness was always close to me. This naturally led to an association with abstract expression in my creative endeavors. As I grow older, the life and death of others naturally become my own fate, and the motivation for life, a fleeting life, becomes a floating presence of light and shadow, the brilliance and loss between existences. A "wonderful dimension of life" where there is nothing, nothing is needed, yet there is something. Worship of the Lord of nature and creation. At the beginning of the work, I drip "SUMI/ink" randomly, follow the movement, and capture the representations that emerge from the overlapping transformations. Through the "water" of the "medium of contemplation," the overlapping of my modest life at the "water's edge of existence," relying on the "merit of creation," is expressed and becomes a work of art. Although my works are merely highly personal proof of my own modest survival, when I was blessed with the opportunity to "present" them, I felt a strange hope for human connection, that perhaps an essence that transcends "me" might "touch a heartstring" in someone, somewhere, or something.
