Our good friend Hiromi kindly gave us to two tickets to an exhibition of Seiji Fujishiro's work at The Museum of Kyoto. This shot is of one of the buildings at the museum, it reminded me of some of the buildings in Fremantle. If you're not familiar with Seiji Fujishiro's work, he uses paper cuttings of many colours to create his works. These paper cuttings are then mounted in front of a light for a kind of stain-glass effect. The whole exhibition is in darkened rooms. Some of the works have mirrors on each side and water at the bottom making an infinite tunnel.
The colours he uses are amazing, as is his use of light and shadow. Hmm... I think the exhibition is very inspirational for anyone working with visual arts no matter what medium.
One disappointment we had seeing this exhibition, was although he drew on a lot of Christian symbolism and even Biblical events in some works, is that he seems to misunderstand what it is all about. It seems he is not the only famous Japanese person that misunderstands things, there is even a “Christian” author who is very famous and popular who actually doesn't get many important things and thus people reading his works are left very confused.
So, this is one of the things we struggle with in Japan that people just don't get so many basic things (although sometimes they pretend to understand) about Christianity. It can be very frustrating for Ritsuko and I, but we continue to pray that God will open people's eyes to the truth.