#253 Spring in Full Bloom
| Size: | approx. 28 × 28 cm |
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| Format: | Framed |
Waiting for Spring
I first felt the urge to write the words Spring in Full Bloom around the beginning of spring last year.
The image quietly took shape within me, yet the season passed more quickly than expected, and the moment to take up the brush slipped away.
Spring is always like that — long awaited, yet fleeting once it arrives.
A year later, the season returned, and with it, the same words.
From an image gently nurtured over time, this work was finally born.
A Sense of Fullness
The word ranman suggests more than brilliance.
It carries a feeling that light, atmosphere, and even the inner landscape have reached their fullness.
Rather than depicting the liveliness of spring, I sought the deep, soft sense of completion that comes after winter has passed.
That the moisture of the ink might quietly lend its effect — like the very breath of spring.
Spring, Held in the Hand
I imagined this work not only on a wall, but also encountered unexpectedly —
where seasonal words come to rest in the hand.
Perhaps alongside a bottle opened to mark the arrival of spring.
Or accompanying a gift sent to someone dear.
When lettering intertwines with memory — with taste, with fragrance — it can evoke a season even before it is fully experienced.
If these characters can open spring within the hand, not only before the eyes, nothing would please me more.
Spring often passes just as we begin to sense it has reached its fullness —
may this piece remain quietly beside that fleeting moment.