Burial at Sea / 水葬

Title of work: Burial at Sea / 水葬
Year of creation: Sep 2020
Dimensions: 71 x 115 cm (Height x Width)
Medium: Digital Media
Technique: Photo Collage

Death is not merely an act of creation but also a reunion with God and a fleeting mystery. When the soul, carrying its memories, returns to the primordial source of life, it merges with the countless memories of myriad beings, reborn as a single droplet. In that moment, the former self ceases to exist, becoming a fragment of someone else’s soul, nameless and unknown. Thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of millions of years later, when all cycles of reincarnation have concluded, we shall all be equally welcomed into a great light—a realm where loneliness and suffering do not exist. I still firmly believe that by quietly keeping our gaze fixed ahead and steadfastly moving forward, even through hardship, we will eventually reach eternal nirvana.

死は創造であり、神との再会であり、瞬く間の神秘です。魂が記憶と共に命の原泉へ還った時、様々な存在の数多の記憶と混ざり合い、再び一滴の雫として生を受けるのです。その時、かつての人格は既になく、名も知らぬ誰かの魂の欠片となるでしょう。何千年、何万年、何億年後か、全ての輪廻転生を終えたら、皆等しく大いなる光の元へ迎えられます。そこにはきっと孤独もなければ苦悩もありません。困難な時もただ黙々と前だけを見据え歩みを進めていれば、いつか悠遠の涅槃に至ることができると、私はまだ信じています。