Orin and I should go to New York City more often. Otherwise, all museums are far away from us. Finally, we went to the Dia Beacon (Museum) and spent hours inside. Ah, art is so much fun after all.
Orin’s friend, Denny. He runs a traveling antique museum called “the Museum of Interesting Things”. The other day he stopped by on his way to show an old film in Albany. Rather than the so-called jewelry antiques, his museum is dominated by really retro and nostalgic toys, machine industry products, old films, and everyday items. Space-time is rewound just by looking at the huge amount of “interesting things” he has collected so far.
On June 14, 2022, when we returned to our suburban home, the sunset was beautiful, and Orin took a video through the window glass with his cell phone. I also took some video with a normal camera. Later, when editing, I noticed that something was flying at the same speed as the train (and over the Hudson River). It repeatedly disappeared and appeared until the northernmost point of Manhattan, and finally it disappeared in the sky (I mean, I couldn’t see it anymore). I picked up only that part and made that “something” into slow motion and edited the video again. Here it is.
On 14 June, 2022, we were going back to Newburgh by Metro North Hudson Line. Such so amazing beautiful sunset just started so Orin took scenery through the window by his cellular. After that, I made short video of the trip with PALM FICTION’s music. Thank you so much for SAYA and VIVIEN!
Surprisingly I found that an unknown something appears in the middle of the sky. Neither star nor plane. You can see it around 08:26 until 09:15. You can see a round light is flying while appearing and hiding.
When I enlarge it from freeze frames, the light sometimes splits and returns. Once I saw the same phenomenon when I was in the East Village in New York. At that time, it followed me to the Seneca subway station when we lived near there, and it climbed up softly and disappeared.
Rear tire went flat at the first corner. So the outing is postponed to another day. At a guitar shop Lotz of Guitars in Wappingers Falls, a town near Poughkeepsie, we went to pick up Orin’s De Armond electric guitar (a design similar to Les Paul). The store is connected to AxeShop where there are a lot of vintage guitars. The Hudson River area is related to Pete Seeger , events for musicians, mainly guitars, are always thriving.
In Bisbee, we saw fireworks in the elementary school garden directly opposite the rocky mountain … this is the first time in 3 years since then. This year is in Newburgh. Celebration of fireworks on the banks of the Hudson River one day ahead. (however I have mixed feelings about Independence Day )
2003年1月10日と11日、ニューヨークのHERE Art Centerで開催されたGreat Small Works主催「第6回おもちゃ劇場フェスティバル」に紙芝居パフォーマンスで参加のため、この物語を作成した。 紙芝居は、一枚一枚の絵を見せながら話を語る大道芸です。登場人物のミミとルルがどんなふうに砂漠の国を救ったか楽しみですね。舞台では、私が一枚一枚の絵を日本語で語り、次にアヤ・カナイさんが英語で通訳をしてくださった。実にありがたいサポートでした!
This is the story of Mimi and Lou-Lou, and how they helped their desert planet. I created this story for my Kami-Shibai performance on 10 & 11 January, 2003, the “Sixth Toy Theater Festival” produced by Great Small Works at the HERE Art Center, New York NY. Kami-Shibai is a street entertainment from using illustrated paper scrolls to tell a story. At that time on the stage, I read the story in Japanese, and then Ms. Aya Kanai provided simultaneous interpretation in English for me. It was a great support to me!
These pictures were made into a collage style by cutting out colored paper. Mimi and Lulu in the story, for their names I borrowed the name of my friend’s cat. Somehow I feel that the story came through the cat named “Lou-Lou & Mimi”.
After 19 years passed, finally I remade my old story into a video. Special thanks to Ms. Tomoko Iwata & Orin Buck for narration, also Orin helped me with audio recording, too.
いつだったか、こちらのヒーラー、Ms. F. V. に、『あなたの過去生は一度、ダイナミックヒーラーだった。そしてその危険なヒーリングの名残がある』と言われたことがある。今更のようにS君はその言葉を思い出す。つまり、相手の不具合な状態を全て肩代わりして自らの身体に移行させ、我が身を持って相手を完治させる。。。いや、それはないでしょう、だって、S君は自己免疫疾患もあれば左足の不具合もあるんです。でも、、、これらの事故が他者でなくて自分に起こって良かった、と真実思っている。そしてこのような介助人生活をO氏が与えてくれたのもありがとう。介助を通してS君は限界に挑む。介助の楽しさと介助の豊かさ、さらにまたアイディアが沸き起こる。
Here Newburgh Free Library is one of my favorite places. A large, clear glass window facing the Hudson River stretches right in front of me, sitting in a comfortable chair and unfolding my laptop. Even though my old eyes, across the river I can see the Metro-North Railroad Hudson line passing and stopping at Beacon Station, also Dia Beacon (Art Foundation) too.
This side of the Hudson River, under my eyes freight trains come and go regularly. I hardly notice it, but in the middle of the night and at dawn, the distant horn jumps into my ear, I wonder what is the train running next to my house? Suddenly something difficult to explain with emotion shaking my soul and nostalgic feeling.
Railroads, trains, and night trains are classics in songs, poetry, literature, and movie/images with the addition of symbolic concepts such as the first station and the last station (life / death), passing stations, transfer stations, local trains, express trains, bullet train—I wonder if it is the speed of each life that people choose. Even now, in my way, a life that ran between stations (the highlights), the parts between stations are now a bit more important and getting acceptance and love.