Musubi Exhibition
Musubi means a knot in Japanese.
It also means the connections and bonds between people.
In Shintoism, Japan’s ancient religion, musubi is the power of becoming or creation.
Physically, musubi means to tie something, such as tying the obi sash on a kimono.
O-musubi is a handmade rice ball that my obāchan (grandma) used to make for me when we visited Japan.
Musubi is the invisible thread that ties family, friends and true love together; the threads of fate that also tie me to you.
結び | Musubi
18 - 23 August 2020
Pūmanawa Gallery
The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora
Ōtautahi Christchurch
光 | Hikari, 2020, gouache on paper
糸を繋げることもむすび。
人を繋げることもむすび。
時間が流れることもむすび。
寄り集まって形を作り、捻れて絡まって、時には戻って、途切れ、また繋がり、、、
それが「結び」、それが時間。
「君の名は。」
Tying thread is musubi.
Connecting people is musubi.
The passage of time is musubi.
They come together to take shape, twisting and tangling, sometimes coming undone, breaking off then reconnecting...
That is musubi, that is time.
- Your Name, 2016