Mother was born in Kyongsong,
North Korea in 1924
She died in Himeji, Japan in 1998
I don’t know anything about her or
how she lived in this world
She had dresses, thousands of them
I put them on,
I painted them,
and gazed at her last smile
Then I set off on my imaginary journey
into four-dimensional space-time
besides windows with the coordinates of
A, B, and C,
moving at the uniform velocity
of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity,
which I studied as a student
There, I watch my young mother
casts a mysterious gaze at me
母は、1924年に朝鮮鏡城で生まれ
1998年に兵庫県姫路で亡くなった
母の一生について私は
ほとんど何も知らなかった
母の遺した膨大な衣装
身に纏い
絵の具を塗り
最後の微笑と向き合い
そのようにして
私のイマジナリイな
時空の旅が始まった
昔、学生だったころ教わった
特殊相対性理論の
等速度運動する時空系A、B、C、・・・
の窓辺には
初々しい母たちの
ひそやかなまなざし
"Mother's Dress" 150cm X 192cm
computer-composed photograph, acrylic color
2002