Suara AlaM's
Whispers of God
Sound Artist
When Life Ends - part 5
When Life Ends - part 5
“Everything returns to its original source, has to return to its original source.
Life is a forgetfulness of the original source and death is again a remembrance.
Life is going away from the original source, death is coming back home.
Death is not ugly, death is beautiful.
But death is beautiful only for those who have lived their life unhindered, uninhibited. unsuppressed.
Death is beautiful only for those who have lived their life beautifully, who have not been afraid to live,
who have been courageous enough to live - who loved, who danced, who celebrated.
Death becomes the ultimate celebration if your life is a celebration.
Let me tell you in this way: whatsoever your life was, death reveals it.
If you have been miserable in life, death reveals misery. Death is a great revealer.
If you have been happy in your life, death reveals happiness.
If you have lived only a life of physical comfort and physical pleasure, then of course,
death is going to be very uncomfortable and very unpleasant, because the body has to be left.
The body is just a temporary abode, a shrine in which we stay for the night and leave in the morning.
It is not your permanent abode, it is not your home.
So if you have lived just a bodily life and you have never known anything beyond the body, death is going to be very, very ugly, unpleasant, painful. Death is going to be an anguish. But if you have lived a little higher than the body, if you have loved music and poetry, and you have loved, and you have looked at the flowers and the stars, and something of the non-physical has entered into your consciousness, death will not be so bad, death will not be so painful. You can take it with equanimity, but still it cannot be a celebration.
If you have touched something of the transcendental in yourself, if you have entered your own nothingness at the center - the center of your being, where you are no more a body and no more a mind, where physical pleasures are completely left far away and mental pleasures such as music and poetry and literature and painting, everything, are left far away, you are simply, just pure awareness, consciousness - then death is going to be a great celebration, a great understanding, a great revelation. If you have known anything of the transcendental in you, death will reveal to you the transcendental in the universe - then death is no longer a death but a meeting with God, a date with God.”
- OSHO -
The last part of the series is a very personal representation of my father being now in another non-visible realm. This is painted on a mirror with broken pieces that are in heaven made back together through the technique of Kintsugi (金継ぎ: 'golden connection'), also called Kintsukuroi (金繕い: 'golden repair'). It is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold or silver lacquer. In Japanese aesthetics, the traces of breakage and repair add to the beauty of an object.
As it is thought in the western world that all our flaws, defects, broken pieces of our soul and diseases heal in heaven, I thought it is nice to make this visible with the golden repair art of the Japanese, also because I hope it can function as a kind of bandage/peace offer, where all his torments, pain, anger and sorrow that has been done to him and his family by the Japanese are healed in heaven.
What stays now is the reflection (mirror) of him in memories of the past. His soul traveled to a place beyond the clouds in the sky, where he is whole again and hopefully finally in peace he could never find on earth. Goodbye dad…
Dimensions
60 cm x 80 cm
Technique and used material
Acrylics on mirror; placed on canvas; Kintsugi