I still remember seeing the original work of Nara Michito at Mori Art Museum, as if a calm power was generated from the canvas.
In addition to misunderstanding Nara Michichi as a female artist, I have actually heard many people say "Nara Michichi's little girl, little girl", but in fact, Nara Michichi believes that this doll is gender-free and neutral.
The little doll under his command is a little lonely, a little pessimistic, a little angry, but also a little happy.
Nara Mitochi said, "Loneliness and alienation are the driving force behind my creation."
But his loneliness is different from Hope's loneliness. Hope is the loneliness of an adult, and Nara Michito is the loneliness of a child.
Nara Mitoto was born in a small city in Japan. He is very introverted and has no friends. When no one chats, Mitochi Nara will chat with Apple Tree.
A little boy talks with an apple tree, so poetic and pitiful.
Nature and loneliness are the two ways that can best cultivate people's extraordinary sensibility.
Sensitivity is the most precious thing in my heart. The artist's sensitivity may be more important than skills, and the writer's sensitivity may be more important than the choice of words and sentences.
The current Internet is distorting our sensibility bit by bit at some level, because some of them are too direct and lack the process of reasoning.
Many people are afraid of loneliness, but loneliness is not as terrible as you think.
has written a long time ago that loneliness is the fragrance of flowers that we can smell when we lower our bodies to face the roses in the sun. In that wonderful experience that is looming, we have a little relationship with this world alone, and then we are obsessed with it and can never forget it.
Nara Mitoto has been confirming and accumulating himself in such a fragrance.
The most interesting thing about studying art works and artists is that you can see him piece together his memories and feelings little by little.
For all the artists and creators I am familiar with, childhood has had the greatest impact on them.
Nara Michito's dolls are all misty, because Nara Michito was born in winter and he likes the colors of snow.
Children and dogs are his eternal themes.
A friend who can't speak, a doll that only exists in the hearts of adults.
In fact, what many people impressed the most is this kind of doll with a little evil and rebellious one.
But many people don’t know that since March 11, 2011, Michito Nara’s style of painting has become like this.
That day was the day when the nuclear power of Japan earthquake and Fukushima were leaked. Fukushima was very close to his hometown Aomori.
In the summer of the same year, Mitochi Nara's father passed away.
For the first time, he felt that death was not a distant thing.
For the first time, he reconciled with the world.
So for the first time, the doll he wrote began to have big crystal eyes.
Also in the same year, Nara Michito created Sleepwalking Doll .
Because in "Snail House", Song Siming was given to Haizao, it is also very well-known in China.
Nara Michito said that sleepwalking dolls represent innocent and endless love, ubiquitous cuteness, and not wanting to grow up.
This reminds me of a self-healing method in psychology called loving therapy. I have tried it myself and it is very useful. Imagine that you are your own mother and your own child, and love yourself as if you love your child.
If the previous doll was Nara Mitochi, who was twisted and wanted to resist, then the sleepwalking doll was he who began to love himself as much as his child.
In the afternoon, I watched a documentary on Bilibili called "Michi Nara and His Travel Records".There is a shot inside
. There is a close-up of the little doll's eyes. Nara Mito used a lot of gold powder on it, flashing, and it seemed that the universe was hidden in her eyes. It was so beautiful that I felt like my soul was hit.
Today I would like to talk to you about some sensitive, fragile and pure emotions.
Sometimes, the world and the people around you will always tell you that your sensitivity, fragility and purity are wrong, weird, and bad.
Sometimes we will abandon these sensitivities, and sometimes we will let this "soul loneliness" cause uneasiness and sadness.
Artists' sensitive emotions are more than ten times more than a hundred times more than ordinary people, but Nara Mitochi does not allow himself to be swept by this sensitivity and slimness.
He later went to study at the Dusseldorf Academy and later lived in Germany for 12 years. In fact, he was almost 30 years old at that time and was an art teacher. He could live a stable life and draw with food and clothing, but he chose to become stronger.
He became stronger just to realize his plan of not growing up. Only by becoming stronger can one protect one's sensitivity, fragility, slenderness, sensibility and purity.
We have all had these beautiful childlike innocence, unswerving belief, simple love and dedication. They are so precious and are gifts given to us by God, but we lost them on the way we grew up.
Because we are not strong enough, we lose our childlike innocence and are willing to be tortured, or torture others after we have power;
Because we are not strong enough, we no longer believe in love and freedom. We only prefer to believe in things that seem stable at the moment;
Because we are not strong enough, we can only become selfish, start to oppose and start to play.
But only strength can build a fence for your purity, beauty and sentiment, you can choose to believe and choose to give.
When it becomes stronger, you can even tell many equally lonely and sensitive teenagers that the child in your heart is right, not wrong or redundant. I have also had it. They just conflict with the current social rules. They are more worthy of love than you who play social roles.
Maybe one day, I will encounter another doll with the universe in my eyes in the vast universe before the exhibition of Michito Nara.
